Cellular Market in Jordan Becomes More Competitive in 2005.DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c26239) has announced the addition of Jordan Communications Projections Report 2005 to their offering Jordan is now one of the regional pioneers in the full liberalization lib·er·al·ize v. lib·er·al·ized, lib·er·al·iz·ing, lib·er·al·iz·es v.tr. To make liberal or more liberal: "Our standards of private conduct have been greatly liberalized . . . of the communications market. By end of 2004, the exclusivity of Jordan Telecom Jordan Telecom is a privatised company, now belonging to the Jordan Telecom Group (JTG). History The history of Telecommunications in Jordan can be traced back to early 1921. in the fixed market expired. The regulator regulator, n the mechanical part of a gas delivery system that controls gas pressure that allows a manageable flow of drug vapor to escape. regulator see reducing valve. liberalized the fixed PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) The worldwide voice telephone network. Once only an analog system, the heart of most telephone networks today is all digital. In the U.S. and International Long Distance (ILD (Inter Layer Dielectric) The insulation used between layers of aluminum or copper wire that interconnect the transistors in a chip. There are three to four layers in a memory chip and five to seven in a logic chip with hundreds of meters of wiring. ) services and started the licensing process of new operators. On the 21st of October 2004, The Council of Ministers approved the TRC's proposed licensing program, which has fully opened the fixed telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. sub-sector to competition as of January 1st 2005. The report includes 5 year historical and 5 year projections on service uptake uptake /up·take/ (up´tak) absorption and incorporation of a substance by living tissue. up·take n. and revenues. The report also profiles all the telecom operators and provided a detailed picture on their market strategies. By September 2005, a total of 29 licenses have been granted by the TRC TRC Noun (in South Africa) Truth and Reconciliation Commission: a commission which encourages people who committed human rights abuses or acts of terror during the apartheid era to reveal the truth about their crimes in return for immunity from prosecution , Jordan Telecom was the sole operator with an individual license until May 2005, when Batelco Jordan was granted its own individual license in addition to the class license it had before. The remaining 26 licenses are all class licenses. A total of five new licenses were granted in 2005, one Individual license was granted to Batelco-Jordan, while the other four were class licenses granted to "Sirat Telecom Technology", "LaSilkee Virtual Connection Company Ltd.", "Pella", and " Jordan Bell Telecom". However, by September 2005 the number of pending applicants stood at 11, one for an Individual license, while the other ten applied for Class licenses. The cellular market in Jordan is a highly competitive market. 2001 was a year of more competition which induced rate reductions, more user awareness, heightened marketing and more flexible packages offered by both mobile operators whereby the market grew by 462,000 (almost double the rise in subscribers in 2000). The entrance of a third cellular operator (XPress) in 2004 and a 4th cellular operator in June 2005 (Umniah) had a substantial effect on the intensity of competition which raised the country's mobile penetration to more than 37% by the end of June 2005. Contents Include: -- Section I: Executive summary -- Section II: Projections -- Section III: Regulatory landscape, investment rules and regulations -- Section IV: Communications markets -- Section V: Brief country background Appendix For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c26239 |
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