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 Jordan - Telecoms, Mobile, Broadband and Forecasts

Executive summary Jordan is a standout country in the region for its relatively well-developed telecoms sector when one considers its lower GDP per capita. Mobile penetration is at around 100%. The government is also making strenuous efforts to encourage Internet penetration growth, so far with little increase in subscriber numbers. The market is the most liberalised in the region. Incumbent JTG, operating as Orange Jordan, has been privatised and France Telecom owns a controlling 51% share. Competition is allowed in all sectors of the market. In the fixed-line sector alternative operators have acquired licences but have yet to make much impact. Mostly they offer VoIP services and compete in the long-distance voice market, often the first market where an incumbent would lose market share upon market liberalisation. Competition also exists in the broadband market at a retail level, although JTG's ISP has a 50% market share. JTG has reduced its wholesale prices considerably, with a 70% reduction from the beginning of 2007 to June 2009. Licensed WiMAX operators are beginning to make inroads into the market, with over 17% market share of the small broadband market by late 2009. WiMAX operator Mada Communications offers subscribers free unlimited VoIP calls to other Mada subscribers and competitive rates on international VoIP calls. WiMAX operators have yet to have the same impact as in the richer markets of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. Competition in the mobile market is intense, with four operators, resulting in much reduced prices. This in turn led to very high subscriber numbers. JTG was awarded a 3G licence in August 2009. A tender for this single licence closed in June 2009 but attracted only one bid, from JTG, which the regulator said did not meet the technical or financial criteria of the tender. Later negotiations resulted in the award to JTG and services were launched in early March 2010. The regulator opened the market to MVNOs but the network operators resisted the concept and took legal action that forced a redraft of the MVNO regulation. Regulations stipulated that individual licences would be required and MVNOs would be required to pay 10% of operating revenues to the TRC annually. This had the effect of discouraging market entrants for some time but FRiENDi mobile has recently negotiated an agreement with Zain.

 Table of Contents 1. Executive summary 2. Key statistics 2.1 Country overview 3. Telecommunications market 3.1 Overview of Jordan's telecom market 4. Regulatory environment 4.1 Background 4.1.1 Telecommunications Law 1995 4.1.2 Telecommunications Law 2002 4.2 Regulatory authority 4.3 Telecom sector liberalisation in Jordan 4.3.1 WiMAX licences 4.4 Privatisation 4.5 Interconnect 4.6 Carrier preselection 4.7 Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) 5. Fixed-network operators in Jordan 5.1 Jordan Telecom Group/JTG/Orange Jordan 6. Telecommunications infrastructure 6.1 National telecom network 6.1.1 Next Generation Networks (NGNs) 6.1.2 National Telecommunication Program 1995-1999 6.2 International infrastructure 7. Wholesaling 7.1 Access 7.2 JTG's pricing structure 7.3 Friction between JTG and other ISPs 8. Broadband access market 8.1 Overview 8.1.1 Internet and broadband statistics 8.1.2 VoIP and Triple Play 8.2 Broadband subscriber forecasts 8.2.1 Scenario 1 - higher growth 8.2.2 Scenario 2 - lower growth 8.3 ISP market 8.3.1 Orange Internet 8.3.2 Umniah/Batelco Jordan 8.3.3 Cyberia 8.3.4 TE Data 8.4 Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) 8.5 Wireless (fixed) broadband 8.5.1 WiFi 8.5.2 WiMAX 9. Digital economy/digital media 9.1 Overview 9.2 Maktoob Group 9.3 Jabbar Internet Group 9.4 Jeeran 9.5 Watwet/TootCorp 10. Digital broadcasting 10.1 Broadcasting market overview 10.1.1 Jordan Media City (JMC) 10.1.2 Jordan Television (JTV) 10.1.3 Rubicon Group 10.2 IPTV 11. Mobile communications 11.1 Overview of Jordan's mobile market 11.1.1 Mobile statistics 11.2 Mobile subscriber forecasts 11.2.1 Scenario 1 - higher growth 11.2.2 Scenario 2 - lower growth 11.3 Regulatory issues 11.3.1 Third GSM licence 11.3.2 MVNOs 11.3.3 3G licence 11.3.4 SIM card registration 11.4 Mobile technologies 11.4.1 GSM 11.4.2 Integrated Digital Enhanced Network (iDEN) 11.4.3 3G 11.5 Major mobile operators 11.5.1 Jordan Mobile Telephone Services/Zain Jordan 11.5.2 Orange 11.5.3 XPress Telecommunications 11.5.4 Umniah 11.5.5 MVNOs 11.6 Mobile voice services 11.6.1 Prepaid 11.6.2 Satellite mobile 11.7 Mobile messaging 11.7.1 Short Message Service (SMS) 11.7.2 Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) 11.8 Mobile content and applications 12. Related reports
Table 1 - Country statistics Jordan - 2010
Table 2 - Telephone network statistics - 2009
Table 3 - Internet user statistics - 2009
Table 4 - Broadband statistics - 2009
Table 5 - Mobile statistics - 2009
Table 6 - National telecommunications authority
Table 7 - GDP growth and inflation - 2006 - 2011
Table 8 - Telecommunications investment by sector - 2005 - 2009
Table 9 - Jordan Telecom Group profit and revenue by sector - 2004 - 2009
Table 10 - Jordan Telecom Group divisional subscribers - 2005 - 2009
Table 11 - Fixed lines in service and teledensity - 1995 - 2011
Table 12 - Internet users and penetration rate - 1995 - 2011
Table 13 - Internet subscribers and penetration rate - 1999 - 2009
Table 14 - Internet subscribers by access method - 2009
Table 15 - DSL subscribers - 2001 - 2009
Table 16 - JRTVC revenue - 2005 - 2007
Table 17 - Mobile subscribers and penetration rate - 1995 - 2011
Table 18 - Mobile operators, subscribers and annual change - 2009
Table 19 - Mobile operators' market share - 2004 - 2009
Table 20 - Forecast mobile subscribers in Jordan - higher growth scenario - 2014; 2019
Table 21 - Forecast mobile subscribers in Jordan - lower growth scenario - 2014; 2019
Table 22 - Zain Jordan ARPU, revenue, EBITDA and capex - 2005 - 2009
Table 23 - Orange prepaid and postpaid subscribers - 2002 - 2008
Table 24 - Zain Jordan prepaid and postpaid subscribers - 2005 - 2009

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