Vision Shopsters: Israel – Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband
Israel has a very competitive and advanced telecommunications market with very high mobile and household broadband penetration rates, plus a developed pay-TV market.
Israel has a very competitive and advanced telecommunications market with very high mobile and household broadband penetration rates, plus a developed pay-TV market. This report introduces the key aspects of the market with statistics and analysis. Subjects covered include:
* Key statistics;
* Regulatory environment and structural reform;
* Major players and the changes in ownership;
* Infrastructure ;
* Mobile voice and data markets;
* Broadband;
* The new NGN;
* Average Revenue per User (ARPU);
* Convergence and Pay TV market.
Executive Summary
There has been enormous upheaval in the Israeli telecommunications sector and nearly all players in this very competitive market have changed ownership in the past two years. With the mobile, household broadband and pay-TV markets mostly saturated, they are positioning themselves for the dramatic changes taking place as the hitherto separate sectors converge.
Whilst incumbent Bezeq still has the major share of the domestic fixed-line market, competitors formerly restricted to international calls, Internet provision, cable TV or mobile services are rapidly making an impact using VoIP, or Voice over Broadband as it is usually referred to in Israel. Bezeq
