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Nicaragua: Prepaid Services to Drive Mobile Growth in a Challenging Market
Market Briefing
Published: July 2010
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Research from: Pyramid Research
Sector: Mobile Markets
The telecommunications market in Nicaragua generated $487m in 2009, a small decline compared with 2008 due to lower voice revenue in the mobile segment. Going forward, we expect growth to come from data services, where fixed broadband and mobile data will play a meaningful role advancing 20.4% and 21.4%, respectively. Fixed broadband got a boost with the recent marketplace entry of Yota with WiMAX. Despite the decline in 2009, mobile voice will expand 6.6% over the next five years as mobile penetration resumes its advances and tries to close the gap with the rest of Central American neighbors. VoIP will rapidly expand at a CAGR of 78.9% over the forecast period but will remain a very small piece of the total market. Pay-TV services will top $39m in revenue in 2015 from $26m in 2009.