DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “Colombia
– Fixed Broadband Market – Statistics and Analyses” report has
been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering.
This report provides an overview of Colombia’s broadband and pay TV
markets, accompanied by relevant statistics, analyses, and broadband
scenario forecasts to 2022.
Colombia’s broadband penetration is relatively high for the region,
though growth in the sector has been hampered by poor fixed-line
infrastructure in many of the country’s 32 departments. The government
has launched several initiatives to increase broadband take-up, and has
in place the National ICT Plan 2008-2019 aimed at encouraging the use of
ICTs and of internet services as a vehicle for economic growth.
The Live Digital for the People 2014-2018 program is concentrated on
promoting the use of ICT in sectors including agriculture, education,
health and tourism, and also involves projects that subsidise internet
access for schools, low-income households, and rural areas. There is
also the Digital Connections Project, aimed at improving services in the
more deprived urban areas, as well as the Computers for Schooling
program which by early 2017 had distributed more than 1.6 million
computers. These efforts have had considerable success, leading to far
higher growth in the number of broadband subscriptions among the lower
socio-economic groups in recent years.
The cable sector commands about half of the market by subscribers, with
DSL having a declining share and with fibre-based broadband developing
strongly, though most infrastructure as yet is concentrated in
high-density urban areas. The resurgence of cable is largely due to the
growing popularity of bundled services which upgraded cable
infrastructure can better support. However, growth in fibre broadband
connections has far outpaced the other platforms, and the developing
footprint of fibre networks is increasingly leading to the migration of
DSL subscribers to fibre.
Colombia’s leading broadband players are the fixed-line operators Claro,
UNE-EPM (owned by the mobile operator Tigo), Movistar, and ETB. Claro
provides cable modem access, UNE offers both DSL and cable modem
services, while Movistar and ETB use DSL technology.
The cable TV sector has undergone major consolidation and, as a result,
two companies, Claro and UNE/Tigo, together control the overwhelming
majority of the market.
Key Developments:
-
Regulator launches phase two of its Digital Connections Project
extending broadband to underserved areas; government investing COP200
billion in national Wi-Fi network to 2018 - Azteca Comunicaciones finishes fibre network rollout
- COP1.2 trillion to be invested in National Fibre Optic Project
-
ETB expands its fibre service, intending to cover one million premises
by end-2018 -
National Television Authority replaces CNTV for regulating and
managing TV services; report includes telcos’ operating updates, ANTV
data to June 2017, regulator’s market data to March 2017, telco’s
operating data to Q2 2017, recent market developments.
Key Topics Covered:
1. Synopsis
2. Market analysis
2.1 Government initiatives
2.1.1 ICT access projects
2.1.2 Compartel
2.1.3 National ICT Plan
2.1.4 Vive Digital
2.1.5 National fibre-optic network
2.2 Broadband statistics
2.3 Forecasts fixed broadband market 2018; 2020; 2022
2.3.1 Notes on scenario forecasts
3. Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) networks
4. Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) networks
5. Fibre-to-the-Premises (FttP) networks
6. Other fixed broadband services
6.1 WiMAX
6.2 Satellite broadband
6.3 Media convergence
6.3.1 Bundled services
7. Digital economy
7.1 E-commerce
8. Digital media
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Cable TV
8.2.1 Claro (Telmex Colombia)
8.2.2 UNE-EPM
8.3 Videostreaming
8.4 Satellite TV
8.5 Digital Terrestrial TV (DTTV)
8.6 Communications: VoIP
Companies Mentioned
- UNE-EPM
- Claro (Telmex)
- Movistar (previously Telefnica Telecom)
- ETB
- BT Colombia
- Calipso
- Caucatel
- Colomsat
- Synapsis
- Emcali
- Telebucaramanga
- Edatel
- DirecTV
- Global TV.
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