MTN Nigeria is expecting to invest at least US$1.5 billion on its network during this year to boost its carrying capacity. Corporate Service Executive, MTN Nigeria, Mr. Wale Goodluck, told The Punch newspaper that the planned investment was a calculated effort by the company to improve on the quality of service on its network.
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Telecom companies from emerging markets navigated the rough economic waters far better than their peers in developed markets, and they are starting to expand outside their home turf, according to Oliver Wyman’s 2009 Communications, Media, and Technology State of the Industry Report.
While 2008 was an annus horribilis for the communications industry worldwide (which includes the fixed, mobile, and cable sub-sectors), a handful of companies, especially in emerging markets, were able to post outstanding performance in Oliver Wyman’s Shareholder Performance Index (SPI). Top-performing communications companies include Bharti Airtel of India, Chunghwa Telecom of Taiwan, Starhub of Singapore, and Maroc Telecom of Morocco. The fixed and mobile market value in China alone grew from 7% of the communications sector market value total to 16% in 2008, driven in large part by China Mobile, which now has a higher market cap than Microsoft.
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A report published by Pyramid Research says that mobile data will account for 29 percent of the global mobile service revenue in 2012, up from 19 percent in 2007. Clearly, the mobile data opportunity is soaring: the 2007 mobile data revenue was more than double what it was in 2004, and Pyramid Research expects it to double again to $300 billion by 2012.
The report also said that more than 60 percent of worldwide mobile data revenue will come from developed markets through 2012, despite the fact that 85 percent of the world’s population lives in emerging markets. However, mobile data revenue in emerging markets will grow more than 50 percent faster than developed markets from 2007 to 2012.
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As mobile operators have seen the average revenue per user (ARPU) decrease, they have sought to boost revenue via new value-added services; however, the most profitable data service is still text messaging, reports In-Stat. Inexpensive, ubiquitous, reliable, and simple for the mobile customer to operate, Short Message Service (SMS) and Multimedia Message Service (MMS) technologies provide potentially endless revenue streams for forward thinking Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), the high-tech market research firm says.
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