Summary

"Qatar Telecom Operators Country Intelligence Report," a new Country Intelligence Report by GlobalData, provides an executive-level overview of the telecommunications market in Qatar today, with detailed forecasts of key indicators up to 2025. Published annually, the report provides detailed analysis of the near-term opportunities, competitive dynamics, and evolution of demand by service type and technology/platform across the fixed telephony, broadband, mobile, and pay-TV markets, as well as a review of key regulatory trends.

Qatar’s telecom and pay-TV services market will reach $3 billion by 2025, driven by projected growth in the mobile data, fixed broadband and pay-TV segments. Mobile data will be the largest revenue-contributing segment in 2020. Mobile data services revenue will also expand at the fastest CAGR of 14.7% over 2020-2025, with growing mobile data consumption on the back of improving 5G coverage, online video consumption over OTT platforms and increase in adoption of higher-ARPU 5G plans. Going forward, Qatar’s pay-TV market will grow at a CAGR of 4.8%, led by increasing adoption of DTH and IPTV services.

The Country Intelligence Report provides in-depth analysis of the following -
- Demographic and macroeconomic context in Qatar.
- The regulatory environment and trends: a review of the regulatory setting and agenda for the next 18-24 months as well as relevant developments pertaining to spectrum licensing, national broadband plans, tariff regulation, and more.
- Telecom and pay-TV services market outlook: analysis as well as historical figures and forecasts of service revenue from the fixed telephony, broadband, mobile voice, mobile data, and pay-TV markets.
- The competitive landscape: an examination of the positioning of leading players in the telecom and pay-TV services market as well as subscription market shares across segments.
- Company snapshots: analysis of the financial position of leading service providers in the telecommunications and pay-TV markets.
- Underlying assumptions behind our published base-case forecasts, as well as potential market developments that would alter, either positively or negatively, our base-case outlook.

Scope

- The overall telecom and pay-TV services revenue in Qatar will grow at a CAGR of 6.6% during 2020-2025.
- Mobile service revenue will account for 72.3% of total telecom and pay-TV service revenue in 2025, driven by growing mobile data consumption and adoption of higher-ARPU 5G plans.
- Ooredoo Qatar will lead the country's mobile market in terms of mobile subscriptions in 2020, supported by its 5G network expansion strategy.

Reasons to Buy

- This Country Intelligence Report offers a thorough, forward-looking analysis of Qatar’s telecommunication markets, service providers and key opportunities in a concise format to help executives build proactive and profitable growth strategies.
- Accompanying GlobalData’s Forecast products, the report examines the assumptions and drivers behind ongoing and upcoming trends in Qatar’s mobile communications, fixed telephony, broadband, and pay-TV markets, including the evolution of service provider market shares.
- With more than 20 charts and tables, the report is designed for an executive-level audience, boasting presentation quality.
- The report provides an easily digestible market assessment for decision-makers built around in-depth information gathered from local market players, which enables executives to quickly get up to speed with the current and emerging trends in Qatar’s telecommunications markets.
- The broad perspective of the report coupled with comprehensive, actionable detail will help operators, equipment vendors and other telecom industry players succeed in the challenging telecommunications market in Qatar.