Analysis on South Africa's Telecommunications & Mobile Devices Market, 2019 with Comprehensive Profiles on 56 Market Players: Telkom, Vodacom, MTN, and More

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Sep 25, 2019, 05:45 ET

DUBLIN, Sept. 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The "The Telecommunications Industry and the Market for Mobile Devices in South Africa 2019" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

This report focuses on the South African telecommunications industry and the market for mobile devices.

While the sector formally includes broadcasting and postal services, this report emphasises telephony, internet and mobile broadband, and the relevant supporting infrastructure. It examines investment, turnover and market share of major players, both local and international, and the influence of various factors including economic activity, lack of spectrum, high data prices, environmental concerns, electricity supply and competition.

There are comprehensive profiles of 56 companies including Telkom, which dominates fixed-line telephony, and Vodacom and MTN, which dominate the mobile space. Other profiled companies include Cell C and Virgin Mobile, and fibre companies such as Vumatel, Vox and Dark Fibre.

The Telecommunications Industry and the Market for Mobile Devices: South African telecommunications operators experienced positive, if muted, growth in 2018 as total subscriptions, device ownership, internet penetration, and data usage continue to increase. The South African telecommunications sector grew by over 14% and was worth R187bn in 2018. Mobile subscriptions, device ownership, and internet penetration continues to grow and the majority of service revenue growth is due to double-digit increases in the value of data. South Africa's fibre and data centre markets are expanding rapidly.

Widespread Disruption: Telecoms companies are having to adapt to widespread disruption; the structural shift from voice to data is undermining traditional margins, and increases in data traffic are being offset by a proportional decline in effective data prices. The market is maturing and operators are having to compete to grow their share of the prepaid and lower-income markets, from which the majority of future growth is expected to come. Investment in the sector is highly influenced by South Africa's poor economic growth, regulatory changes and technological developments.

Key Topics Covered

1. Description of the Industry
1.1. Industry Value Chain
1.2. Geographic Position

2. Size of the Industry

3. State of the Industry
3.1. Local
3.1.1. Corporate Actions
3.1.2. Regulations
3.1.3. Enterprise Development & Social Economic Development
3.2. Continental
3.3. International

4. Influencing Factors
4.1. Economic Environment
4.2. Lack of Spectrum
4.3. Policy Uncertainty & Ineffective Regulatory Bodies
4.4. Labour
4.5. Environmental Concerns
4.6. Electricity Supply
4.7. Technology, Research & Development (R&D), and Innovation

5. Competition
5.1. Barriers to Entry

6. SWOT Analysis

7. Outlook

8. Industry Associations

9. References
9.1. Publications
9.2. Websites

Companies Mentioned

2C Telecoms (Pty) Ltd
A T C (Pty) Ltd
Aberdare Cables (Pty) Ltd
Afrihost SP (Pty) Ltd
Alcatel-Lucent South Africa (Pty) Ltd
Altron TMT (Pty) Ltd
ATIO Corporation (Pty) Ltd
Bitco Telecoms (Pty) Ltd
Blue Label Telecoms Ltd
Broadband Infraco SOC Ltd
Business Connexion (Pty) Ltd
Celcom Group (Pty) Ltd
Cell C Ltd
Core Computer Group (Pty) Ltd (The)
Cybersmart (Pty) Ltd
Dark Fibre Africa (Pty) Ltd
Datapro (Pty) Ltd
Datatec Ltd
Dimension Data (Pty) Ltd
EOH Mthombo (Pty) Ltd
FibreCo Telecommunications (Pty) Ltd
FoneWorx (Pty) Ltd
Gateway Communications (Pty) Ltd
Hisense SA Sales Holdings (Pty) Ltd
Huawei Technologies Africa (Pty) Ltd
Huge Telecom (Pty) Ltd
Ignition Telecoms Investments (Pty) Ltd
Jasco Electronics Holdings Ltd
KNR Flatrock (Pty) Ltd
Lenovo (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd
LG Electronics SA (Pty) Ltd
Liquid Telecommunications South Africa (Pty) Ltd
Lungisa - VRG Telecommunications and Projects (Pty) Ltd
Metro Fibre Networx (Pty) Ltd
Microsoft (S A) (Pty) Ltd
MRP Mobile (Pty) Ltd
MTN Group Ltd
Nokia Solutions and Networks South Africa (Pty) Ltd
Rain B2B (Pty) Ltd
Reunert Ltd
Sabre Radio Networks (Pty) Ltd
Samsung Electronics South Africa (Pty) Ltd
Sentech SOC Ltd
SGT Solutions (Pty) Ltd
Strike Media (Pty) Ltd
Telemasters Holdingsc Ltd
Telkom SA SOC Ltd
Tellumat (Pty) Ltd
Teraco Data Environments (Pty) Ltd
Tribal Zone Telecommunications (Pty) Ltd
Truteq Wireless (Pty) Ltd
Virgin Mobile South Africa (Pty) Ltd
Vodacom Group Ltd
Vox Telecommunications (Pty) Ltd
Vumatel (Pty) Ltd
ZTE Corporation South Africa (Pty) Ltd

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