WORLDWIDE MARKET RESEARCH REPORT - CISE

EC/IST FP6 Project No 026920
Work Package: 6
Type of document: Report
Date: 20.12.2007
File name: OP_WP6_D37_V1.0.doc Version: 1.0
Title: Worldwide Market Research Report 353 / 356
domestic: NA
international: country code - 977; radiotelephone communications; microwave landline
to India; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean).
Oman general assessment: modern system consisting of open-wire, microwave, and
radiotelephone communication stations; limited coaxial cable.
domestic: open-wire, microwave, radiotelephone communications, and a domestic
satellite system with 8 earth stations.
international: country code - 968; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Indian Ocean), 1
Arabsat.
Pakistan general assessment: the telecom infrastructure is improving dramatically with foreign
and domestic investments into fixed-line and mobile networks; mobile cellular
subscribership has skyrocketed, approaching 50 million in late 2006, up from only
about 300,000 in 2000; fiber systems are being constructed throughout the country to
aid in network growth; main line availability has risen only marginally over the same
period and there are still difficulties getting main line service to rural areas.
domestic: microwave radio relay, coaxial cable, fiber-optic cable, cellular, and satellite
networks.
international: country code - 92; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean
and 2 Indian Ocean); 3 operational international gateway exchanges (1 at Karachi and
2 at Islamabad); microwave radio relay to neighboring countries.
Philippines general assessment: good international radiotelephone and submarine cable services;
domestic and inter-island service adequate.
domestic: domestic satellite system with 11 earth stations; cellular communications
now dominate the industry with roughly 10 mobile cellular subscribers for every fixedline
subscriber.
international: country code - 63; 11 international gateways; submarine cables to Hong
Kong, Guam, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Brunei, and Malaysia among others.
Qatar general assessment: modern system centered in Doha.
domestic: NA
international: country code - 974; tropospheric scatter to Bahrain; microwave radio
relay to Saudi Arabia and UAE; submarine cable to Bahrain and UAE; satellite earth
stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean) and 1 Arabsat.
Russia general assessment: the telephone system is experiencing significant changes; there
are more than 1,000 companies licensed to offer communication services; access to
digital lines has improved, particularly in urban centers; Internet and e-mail services
are improving; Russia has made progress toward building the telecommunications
infrastructure necessary for a market economy; the estimated number of mobile
subscribers jumped from fewer than 1 million in 1998 to 120 million in 2005; a large
demand for main line service remains unsatisfied, but fixed-line operators continue to
grow their services.
domestic: cross-country digital trunk lines run from Saint Petersburg to Khabarovsk,
and from Moscow to Novorossiysk; the telephone systems in 60 regional capitals have