Released on: March 3, 2008, 9:29 pm

Press Release Author: Bharat Book Bureau

Industry: Telecommunications

Press Release Summary: Independent 5-year telecommunications forecast for the Czech
Republic.
Original telecommunications market research and telecommunications sector trend
analysis for the Czech Republic\'s telecommunications industry.

Press Release Body: Bharatbook.com is proud to promote the new report
"Telecommunications Report Czech Republic"
(http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=19059) from its vast collection of
informative market research reports.

Independent 5-year telecommunications forecast for the Czech Republic.
Original telecommunications market research and telecommunications sector trend
analysis for the Czech Republic\'s telecommunications industry.
Competitive intelligence, regional telecommunications company rankings and SWOT
analyses on international and domestic telecommunications companies in the Czech
Republic.

The Czech Republic Telecommunications Report has been researched at source in 2006
and features latest-available data covering all headline indicators; 5-year industry
forecasts through end-2011; company rankings and competitive landscapes covering
leading multinational handset manufacturers and equipment vendors, domestic
fixed-line and mobile operators, and analysis of latest industry news, trends and
regulatory developments.

Czech Republic Telecommunications Report provides industry professionals and
researchers, operators, equipment suppliers and vendors, corporate and financial
services analysts and regulatory bodies with independent forecasts and competitive
intelligence on the telecommunications industry in the Czech Republic.

Key Benefits of Report :

Benchmark It\'s Independent 5-Year Telecommunications Industry Forecast for the Czech
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business planning in the Czech telecommunications market.

Target Business Opportunities & Risks in the Czech Republic\'s Telecommunications
Sector through our reviews of latest industry trends, regulatory changes, and major
deals, projects and investments in the Czech Republic.

Exploit Latest Competitive Czech Telecommunications Intelligence & company SWOTS on
your competitors and peers through company rankings by sales, market share,
investments and leading products and services.

Coverage

Executive Summary
Summary of It\'s key industry forecasts and trend analysis, covering ICT, fixed-line,
mobile and internet markets, and headline news of key industry events from the
latest quarter.

Market Overview
At-a-glance outlook of the structure, size and value of the industry, including an
overview of key players and a snapshot of regional penetration rates for fixed-line,
mobile and internet markets.

Business Environment Rankings
It provides a cross-border analysis of telecoms regulatory systems across regional
markets, and their investor prospects, discussing the merits and downfalls of each
country's business environment, and ranking them in order of competitiveness. The
rankings take into account industry factors, such as Market Maturity, Growth
Potential, Competitive Environment and Licensing Framework in addition to It's
political and economic risk ratings.

It 5-Year Industry Forecast
Historic data series and 5-year forecasts to end-2011 for all key industry
indicators (see list below), supported by explicit assumptions, plus analysis of key
downside risks to the main forecast.

Fixed-Line Telephony - Telephone Lines (\'000); Telephone Lines/100 Inhabitants;

Cellular Telephony - Phone Subscribers (\'000); Mobile Phone Subscribers/ 100
Inhabitants; Mobile Phone Subscribers/100 Fixed Line Subscribers;

Internet Markets - Internet Users (\'000); Internet Users/100 Inhabitants; Broadband
Internet Subscribers (\'000); Broadband Internet Subscribers/100 Inhabitants;

Multimedia Markets - PCs (\'000); PCs/100 Inhabitants; TV households (\'000s); Pay-TV
subscribers (\'000s); Pay-TV subscribers/100 inhabitants; Cable TV subscribers
(\'000s); Direct-to-Home Subscribers (\'000s)

5-Year Macroeconomic Forecast
It forecasts for all headline macroeconomic indicators, including real GDP growth,
inflation, fiscal balance, trade balance, current account and external debt.

Competitive Landscape & Rankings
Commentary on key operators highlighting ownership structures, latest available
revenue figures, market share analysis and ARPU counts.

Company Profiles & SWOTS
Company profiles, including SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats)
analyses, fully researched senior executives and contact details, business activity,
leading products and services, and a record of all recent foreign direct investments
and projects.

Executive Summary

The Sector At A Glance

Key Insights On The Telecomunications Sector of the Czech Republic

The Czech Republic continues to offer one of the most attractive business
environments in Central and Eastern Europe. The country has maintained its score in
It's latest regional Business Environment Rankings, and is positioned second only to
Greece. The Czech telecoms market is one of the most mature in the region, with
well-developed services and infrastructure across its mobile, fixed-line and
broadband sectors. Competition is generally well-developed, and the market has, in
recent years, attracted high levels of inward investment from multinational
operators such as Telefónica, T-Mobile and Vodafone. The most recent examples of
foreign companies investing in the Czech telecoms market include the acquisition of
telecoms and broadcasting operator Ceské Radiokomunikace by a consortium of private
equity groups, the acquisition of Karneval by Liberty Media and the announcement
that a fourth mobile operator was licensed and poised to enter the sector. Based on
positive developments in the Czech broadband market in 2006, which include reduced
wholesale prices and the acceleration of government and operator rollout strategies,
we have upgraded our predictions of broadband growth over the next five years.

The effects of competition can be seen most clearly in the country's mobile market,
which remains a lucrative source of revenue for operators despite slowing subscriber
growth rates and increasing market maturity. Mobile operators continue to fight it
out quarter by quarter and their results have been somewhat erratic. The three
network operators - T-Mobile, O2 and Vodafone - added a total of 126,000 net new
customers during Q306, taking the subscriber base to 11.894mn. It estimates that net
additions in the fourth quarter will result in a market total of 12.13mn.

Meanwhile, there exists much more potential for growth - and increased competition -
in the country's thriving broadband sector. ADSL growth has been primarily driven by
Telefónica O2, with the incumbent telco more than doubling its customer base to
364,000 subscribers by the end of September 2006. Telefónica O2 also offers
wholesale lines to alternative operators and slashed its wholesale prices earlier in
2006 following accusations of abuse of its dominant market position. Although It has
previously expressed concern about the uncompetitive behaviour of Telefónica O2, the
national regulator has responded to potential breaches of competition law and has
worked steadily towards increased competition in the wireline and broadband sectors.
Telefónica O2 faces growing competition from alternative infrastructures, with cable
operator UPC emerging as a major rival. UPC's broadband user base is less than a
third of the size of Telefónica's (UPC had 99,700 broadband internet subscribers at
the end of September 2006), but the cable operator has an advantage in the
triple-play market thanks to its 417,000 television subscribers. Furthermore, the
anticipated merger between UPC and Karneval will swell UPC's total customer numbers
to over 1mn, and further strengthen the alternative fixed-line operator market.

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