About this market study

The total number of mobile subscribers worldwide is set to cross the magic 3 billion mark in late 2007, and worldwide mobile penetration will pass 50 percent in 2008. As mobile markets have grown bigger and faster than even the most aggressive forecasts predicted, so the search for continuing growth shifts from the mature markets of Europe, North America and the Far East, to the surging growth markets of China, the Indian sub-continent, Asia, Latin America and Africa and the Middle East. This massive market study looks at the world's mobile markets and the major players within those markets to present you with a vast array of data, facts and figures to help with business planning, strategy, forecasting and presentations. This huge report will help you to understand the biggest mobile markets today and the forecast growth in those markets over the next 5 years, and also the biggest players, with detailed profiles of the biggest operators worldwide across all geographic regions.

Data available in this report includes:
• Top 40 MNOs by Subscribers (31st December 2006)
• Top 20 MNOs by Revenues (31st December 2006)
• Top 15 MNOs (Groups) by Subscribers (31st December 2006)
• MNOs with Highest ARPU (FY 2006)
• MNOs with Lowest ARPU (FY 2006)
• Key Performance Indicators for Top 20 MNOs
• Top 10 MNOs in Europe by Subscribers (31st December 2006)
• Top 10 MNOs in Asia Pacific by Subscribers (31st December 2006)
• Top 10 MNOs in North America by Subscribers (31st December 2006)
• Top 10 MNOs in Latin America by Subscribers (31st December 2006)
• Top 5 MNOs in Africa and Middle East by Subscribers (31st December 2006)
• Top 10 MNOs by ARPU (FY 2006)
• Top 10 MNOs by ARPU in the Emerging Markets (FY 2006)
• Ranking of Regions in Terms of Year-on-year Subscriber Growth Rate in 2006
• Top 30 Mobile Markets By Subscribers (31st December 2006)
• Mobile Subscriber Base Growth by Region (2007–2012)
• Top 20 Growth Markets (2007–2012)
• Top 10 SMS Markets (Year-end 2006 est.)
• 2006 Quarterly Handset Shipments (In Million) by Major Vendor
• Handset Shipments 2006 - Market Share Comparison for Major Vendors
• Handset Shipments 2006 - Regional Break-out (2006)
• Top 10 Wireline Markets
• Top 20 Broadband Markets
• Top 30 Internet Markets

Designed to give you the facts and figures needed to understand the mobile markets of today and the expected growth from now until the end of 2012, this report is literally packed with more than 250 pages of charts, forecasts, tables and statistics.

Table of Contents

Introduction and Overview

Mobile Operators Worldwide
Top 40 MNOs by Subscribers
(31st December 2006)

Top 20 MNOs by Revenues
(31st December 2006)

MNOs with Highest ARPU (FY 2006)

MNOs with Lowest ARPU (FY 2006)

Operator profiles
- China Mobile
- China Unicom
- Cingular Wireless
- Verizon Wireless
- Sprint Nextel
- NTT DoCoMo
- MTS
- VimpelCom
- Telcel
- Telkomsel
- Telecom Italia Mobile
- Bharti Airtel Limited
- Turkcell
- T-Mobile Germany
- Vodafone Germany
- Reliance Communications Limited
- MegaFon
- Vivo Brazil
- KDDI Corporation
- Vodafone Italy

* Operator profiles include market share, subscriber numbers, postpaid/prepaid split, revenues, ARPU, churn and other KPIs.

Mobile Groups Worldwide
Vodafone
Telefonica
America Movil
T-Mobile
France Telecom
MTS
Telenor
Telecom Italia Mobile
VimpelCom
SingTel

* Company profiles include market
share, subscriber numbers, revenues, and other KPIs.

Worldwide Mobile Markets
Top 30 Mobile Markets By Subscribers
(31st December 2006)

Country profiles
- China
- United States of America
- Russia
- India
- Brazil
- Japan
- Germany
- Italy
- The UK
- Indonesia
- Mexico
- France
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- Pakistan
- Spain
- The Philippines
- South Korea
- Thailand
- South Africa

* Country profiles include competitive landscape, market shares, subscriber numbers, KPIs of major MNOs in each market and other key data points.

Mobile Handset Market
Worldwide handset shipments 2006

Quarterly Handset Shipments (In Million) 2006, by major vendor

Market share by vendor

Handset shipments, 2006, regional break out

Vendor profiles
Nokia
Motorola
Samsung
Sony Ericsson
LG

* Vendor profiles include shipment numbers, revenues, market share and other KPIs.

Telecom Market – At a Glance
Ranking of Regions in Terms of Year-on-year Subscriber Growth Rate in 2006

Mobile Subscriber Base Growth by Region (2007–2012)

Top 20 Growth Markets (2007–2012)

Regional Outlook
- Top 10 MNOs in Europe by Subscribers (31st December 2006)
- Top 10 MNOs in Asia Pacific by Subscribers (31st December 2006)
- Top 10 MNOs in North America by Subscribers (31st December 2006)
- Top 10 MNOs in Latin America by Subscribers (31st December 2006)
- Top 5 MNOs in Africa and Middle East by Subscribers (31st December 2006)

Data Services
- Top 10 MNOs by ARPU (FY 2006)
- Top 10 MNOs by ARPU in the Emerging Markets (FY 2006)
- Top 10 SMS Markets (Year-end 2006 est.)
- Top Wireline, Broadband and Internet Markets
- Top 10 Wireline Markets
- Top 20 Broadband Markets
- Top 30 Internet Markets

Appendices
Glossary
Portio Research Classifications
About the Authors
Portio Research Limited

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