HONG KONG TELECOMS MARKET REPORT 2014

This Country Report and accompanying data annex provide a comprehensive overview of Hong Kong's telecoms market, including KPIs and data on subscribers, penetration, revenue and ARPU. The Report analyses the strategies of major players in the country's fixed and mobile telecoms markets, and includes market share data and operators' infrastructure status. It also includes an analysis of the market outlook, focusing on the following trends and emerging opportunities.
PCCW-HKT is in talks to acquire CSL.
OFCA will re-assign one-third of previously allocated 2.1GHz spectrum in 2016.
China Mobile Hong Kong (CMHK) is enabling 4G users to exchange unused data.

COMPANY COVERAGE

The following companies are mentioned in this Report.
China Mobile Hong Kong (CMHK)
CSL
Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN)
Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong
i-Cable
PCCW-HKT
SmarTone Mobile Communications

DATA COVERAGE

Analysys Mason's country report data annexes provide a range of key metrics for each country's telecoms market. Figures are supplied for each year since 2006. Metrics include the following.
Fixed telecoms market

Mobile telecoms market
Connections
PSTN
ISDN
broadband (split by access technology: DSL, cable modem, residential FTTB/LAN Ethernet, FWA and other)
households with voice
site penetration (voice and broadband)
population penetration (broadband)
retail VoIP.

Connections (total and split by prepaid and contract)
penetration (total)
percentage of activity (total and split by prepaid and contract)
3G and above (as a percentage of total).
Revenue
service revenue, including nominal growth, revenue per connection per month, and the incumbent's share of revenue
retail revenue ('spend') – defined as service revenue minus wholesale revenue – as a percentage of GDP, per capita per year and per connection per month.

Revenue
service revenue (total and split by prepaid and contract)
ARPU (total, prepaid and contract)
data revenue (as a percentage of service revenue)
retail revenue ('spend'), also as a percentage of GDP and per capita per year.
Operator-level metrics/market share
broadband subscribers by major broadband operator (and associated market shares and year-on-year changes)
DSL connections (total and the incumbent's share).

Operator-level metrics/market share
active subscribers (and associated market share)
proportion of prepaid accounts
ARPU (total, prepaid and contract)
service revenue
data revenue (as a percentage of service revenue).