New Zealand - Telecoms - Overview and Analysis - 2008

Synopsis

The telecoms industry in New Zealand has undergone significant changes over the last year. While the results of these changes will not have a significant impact on the market in the short term, they will profoundly alter the telecoms market over the next five years. At the end of 2007 some of the positive sentiment was undermined by Telecom’s cabinetisation plan. The bundling of voice, data and video services (triple play) and mobile services (quadruple play) are likely to develop on a more large scale fashion in New Zealand in 2008 and 2009. We expect the local access voice market to fall further over the next few years, as phone call prices and volumes continue to drop and more people give up their traditional home phone line and move to alternative access networks such as mobile and VoIP as well as products based on data and IP-based solutions. As well as a general overview and analysis of the key market trends, this report provides an overview of the key players in the market, infrastructure and regulatory developments, and an overview of Fixed Network Voice and VoIP