Joint ITUECA Regional Workshop on Information and Communication Technologies ICT Indicators Gaborone

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Joint ITU/ECA Regional Workshop on Information
and Communication Technologies (ICT)
IndicatorsGaborone, Botswana26-29 October 2004
Top 50 Telecom Indicators

• Esperanza.Magpantay_at_itu.int
• Market, Economics and Finance Unit
• Telecommunication Development Bureau

Host Botswana Telecommunications Authority (BTA)
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Background

• Indicators published in Yearbook of Statistics
  and World Telecommunication Indicators database
• Based on Telecommunication Indicator Handbook
• Updated during the last World Telecommunication
  Indicators Meeting, January 2003

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Guidelines

• International comparability Trade-off between
  wish list (everything!) and most important and
  most likely to collect from most countries
• Telecom sector mandate Subscriber, tariffs,
  traffic, revenue statistics, etc.
• Audience Analysts, governments
• To be collected by regulators/ministries from
  operators

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Categories of current Top 50

• Telephone network
• Mobile services
• Text/Data Network
• Quality of service
• Traffic
• Tariffs
• Staff
• Revenue
• Investment

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Telephone network

• Main telephone lines in operation
• Total capacity of local public switching
  exchanges
• Main lines connected to digital exchanges
• Main lines which are for residential use
• Main lines in urban areas
• Number of localities with telephone service
• Public pay phones

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Mobile services

• Cellular mobile telephone subscribers
• - Cellular mobile subscribers prepaid
• Digital cellular mobile telephone subscribers
• Mobile Internet subscribers
• Percent coverage of mobile cellular network
• Land area
• Population

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Text/Data network services

• Number of telex subscriber lines
• Private leased circuits
• Total subscribers to public data networks
• Internet subscribers
• Dial-up
• Broadband
• Cable modem
• xDSL
• Other

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Text/Data network services

• Internet users (should be collected using regular
  NSO survey)
• Percent female Internet users
• Female Internet Users as of female population
• Number of Public Internet Access Centres (PIACs)
• Number of localities with PIACs - by urban/rural
• Percentage of population with access to PIACs
  (govt/private)
• PWLAN Locations
• ISDN Subscribers
• Basic rate ISDN subscribers
• Primary rate ISDN subscribers

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Quality of Service

• Waiting list for main lines
• Faults per 100 main lines per year
• Percent of telephone faults cleared by next
  working day

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Traffic

• Local telephone traffic (minutes)
• Fixed to mobile traffic
• National telephone traffic (minutes)
• International
• incoming telephone traffic (minutes)
• outgoing telephone traffic (minutes)
• Dial-up Internet traffic (minutes)
• Mobile traffic
• Outgoing mobile traffic (minutes)
• Number of mobile Short Message Service (SMS) sent

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Traffic (cont.)

• International outgoing telegrams
• International Internet bandwidth (Mbps)
• Incoming
• Outgoing
• Public data traffic (non-Internet)

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Tariffs

• Fixed telephone
• Connection fee for telephone service
  (residential, business)
• Monthly subscription for telephone service
  (residential, business)
• Price of a 3-minute fixed telephone local call
  (peak rate)
• Price of a 3-minute fixed telephone local call
  (off-peak rate)
• National telephone call charges (peak, off-peak)
• International telephone call charges (peak,
  off-peak)

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Tariffs

• Mobile cellular
• connection charge - postpaid, prepaid
• subscription charge - postpaid
• price of per minute local call (peak) - postpaid,
  prepaid
• price of per minute local call (off-peak) -
  postpaid, prepaid
• Price of national SMS - postpaid, prepaid

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Tariffs

• Leased line charges
• Data communication charges
• Internet charges (dial-up)
• Connection charge
• Monthly rental charge
• Usage charge
• Broadband (monthly subscription)

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Staff

• Total full-time staff in telecommunication
  services
• Female telecommunication staff
• Mobile communications staff

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Revenue

• Total revenues from all telecommunication
  services of which
• Revenues from telephone service
• Income from telephone connection charge
• Income from telephone subscription charge
• Income from local calls
• Income from national long distance calls
• Income from international calls
• Revenues from data transmission (including
  Internet access)
• Revenue from leased lines
• Revenue from mobile communications services
• Other revenues
• Value-added from telecommunications

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Investment

• Total annual investment in telecom
• Foreign
• Mobile
• Fixed

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Broadcasting

• Number of radio sets
• Households with radio (HH survey)
• Number of television sets
• Households with a television (HH survey)
• Homes passed by cable television
• Cable television subscribers
• Direct to Home satellite antennas

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Thank you for your attention!

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