Fixed Line Telecoms in South Africa

Fixed Line Telecoms in South Africa industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market size (value 2010-14, and forecast to 2019). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market. Essential resource for top-line data and analysis covering the South Africa fixed line telecoms market. Includes market size data, textual and graphical analysis of market growth trends, leading companies and macroeconomic information.

The fixed-line telecommunications market is valued as the revenues obtained by operators for voice telephony and other non-voice information transmission using fixed lines (wirelines), rather than wireless systems. Only revenues from end-users are included, with revenues from other operators, as in wholesale transactions, excluded. Revenues from internet services and value-added services are included. Market volumes represent the number of fixed-line telephones. All currency conversions were carried out at constant 2013 average annual exchange rates.

The South African fixed line telecoms market had total revenues of $4.0bn in 2014, representing a compound annual rate of change (CARC) of -0.6% between 2010 and 2014.

Market volumes declined with a CARC of -1% between 2010 and 2014, to reach a total of 4.3 million fixed line telephones in 2014.

The performance of the market is forecast to follow a similar pattern, with an anticipated CARC of -0.6% for the five-year period 2014 – 2019, which is expected to drive the market to a value of $3.9bn by the end of 2019.

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Macroeconomic indicators provide insight into general trends within the South Africa economy

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What was the size of the South Africa fixed line telecoms market by value in 2014?

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Companies mentioned

Tata Communications Limited and Telkom SA SOC Limited

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Executive Summary 2

Market value 2

Market value forecast 2

Market volume 2

Market volume forecast 2

Category segmentation 2

Market share 2

Market rivalry 2

Market Overview 7

Market definition 7

Market analysis 7

Market Data 8

Market value 8

Market volume 9

Market Segmentation 10

Category segmentation 10

Market share 11

Market Outlook 12

Market value forecast 12

Market volume forecast 13

Five Forces Analysis 14

Summary 14

Buyer power 15

Supplier power 16

New entrants 17

Threat of substitutes 18

Degree of rivalry 19

Leading Companies 20

Tata Communications Limited 20

Telkom SA SOC Limited 22

Macroeconomic Indicators 25

Country Data 25

Appendix 27

Methodology 27

Industry associations 28

Related MarketLine research 28

LIST OF TABLES

Table 1: South Africa fixed line telecoms market value: $ billion, 201014(e) 8

Table 2: South Africa fixed line telecoms market volume: million units, 201014(e) 9

Table 3: South Africa fixed line telecoms market category segmentation: $ billion, 2014(e) 10

Table 4: South Africa fixed line telecoms market share: % share, by value, 2014(e) 11

Table 5: South Africa fixed line telecoms market value forecast: $ billion, 201419 12

Table 6: South Africa fixed line telecoms market volume forecast: million units, 201419 13

Table 7: Tata Communications Limited: key facts 20

Table 8: Telkom SA SOC Limited: key facts 22

Table 9: Telkom SA SOC Limited: key financials ($) 23

Table 10: Telkom SA SOC Limited: key financials (ZAR) 23

Table 11: Telkom SA SOC Limited: key financial ratios 23

Table 12: South Africa size of population (million), 201014 25

Table 13: South Africa gdp (constant 2005 prices, $ billion), 201014 25

Table 14: South Africa gdp (current prices, $ billion), 201014 25

Table 15: South Africa inflation, 201014 26

Table 16: South Africa consumer price index (absolute), 201014 26

Table 17: South Africa exchange rate, 201014 26

LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1: South Africa fixed line telecoms market value: $ billion, 201014(e) 8

Figure 2: South Africa fixed line telecoms market volume: million units, 201014(e) 9

Figure 3: South Africa fixed line telecoms market category segmentation: % share, by value, 2014(e) 10

Figure 4: South Africa fixed line telecoms market share: % share, by value, 2014(e) 11

Figure 5: South Africa fixed line telecoms market value forecast: $ billion, 201419 12

Figure 6: South Africa fixed line telecoms market volume forecast: million units, 201419 13

Figure 7: Forces driving competition in the fixed line telecoms market in South Africa, 2014 14

Figure 8: Drivers of buyer power in the fixed line telecoms market in South Africa, 2014 15

Figure 9: Drivers of supplier power in the fixed line telecoms market in South Africa, 2014 16

Figure 10: Factors influencing the likelihood of new entrants in the fixed line telecoms market in South Africa, 2014 17

Figure 11: Factors influencing the threat of substitutes in the fixed line telecoms market in South Africa, 2014 18

Figure 12: Drivers of degree of rivalry in the fixed line telecoms market in South Africa, 2014 19

Figure 13: Telkom SA SOC Limited: revenues & profitability 24

Figure 14: Telkom SA SOC Limited: assets & liabilities 24

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