Research and Markets: India Telecommunications Report Q1 2012: strong broadband subscriber growth to 2016

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/5eecd5/india_telecommunic) has announced the addition of the "India Telecommunications Report Q1 2012" report to their offering.

BMI's Q112 report on India's telecommunications market provides a comprehensive overview of the latest developments to occur within the country's mobile, fixed-line telephony and internet sectors. During this quarter, sees BMI's five-year growth forecasts for these different sectors extended through to the end of 2016. BMI has also revised its forecasts to reflect the latest data from by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), as well as from some of the country's largest telecoms operators, namely Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Reliance Communications.

Business Monitor International's India Telecommunications Report provides industry professionals and strategists, corporate analysts, telecommunication associations, government departments and regulatory bodies with independent forecasts and competitive intelligence on India's telecommunications industry.

BMI has revised and extended its forecasts for India's mobile telephony market to the end of 2016. The latest data released by the TRAI showed there were almost 852mn mobile subscribers at the end of June 2011, representing an increase of 4.9% q-o-q and 34.0% y-o-y. In H111, India's mobile market expanded by 12.8%. Based on this trend, BMI estimates that full-year growth was just over 26%. This allows for slightly stronger growth in the second half of the yearH211.

In 2012, BMI expects mobile market growth to fall to around 18%. The slowing growth trajectory envisaged by its forecast takes account of the slowdown in urban subscriber growth. At the same time, the pace of Indian mobile operators' rural expansion plans remainsis moderate. By the end of its newly extended forecast in 2016, BMI anticipates a total market of someabout 1.593bn mobile subscribers.

Meanwhile, the TRAI reported that India had 20.3mn internet subscribers at the end of June 2011. The number of broadband subscribers totalled 12.35mn in June, equivalent to 60.7% of the total internet subscriber base. According to BMI's newly extended broadband forecast, it expects strong subscriber growth to 2016, as the sector continues to benefit from the public and private support. BMI forecasts a market of almost 16.9mn broadband subscribers at the end of 2012 and now forecastpredict that this number will increase to 38.3mn by 2016; this is equivalent to a penetration rate of almost 3%.

Companies Profiled:

• Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL)
• Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL)
• Bharti Airtel
• Vodafone Essar
• Reliance Communications

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