Ecuador: Outlook for 4G Broadband Networks

businesswire.com/ The report “Ecuador: Fiber Network Deployments Coupled with Investments in 4G Network Expansion to Support Telecom Growth” provides an executive-level overview of the telecommunications market in Ecuador today, with detailed forecasts of key indicators up to 2021.

Broadband lines will grow moderately during 2016-2021, with the penetration of population to increase from 10.3% in 2016 to 13.7% by 2021. Growth will be driven by government and operator investments in fiber network deployments to improve broadband availability. Operators should emphasize increasing investments in the fixed and mobile market to support the objectives set by the Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society in its National Plan 2016-2021. 4G network expansion by operators will provide growth opportunities for vendors and investors.

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In 2016, Ecuador generated an estimated telecom service revenue of US$3.2bn (equivalent to 3.3% of nominal GDP), a 3.4% decrease in comparison to 2015, due to decline in mobile voice and circuit switched revenue. Despite the decline, mobile voice continued to be the largest revenue-contributing segment and accounted for 34.5% of total service revenue in 2016, but it will be surpassed by mobile data from 2018 onward, owing to operators’ investments in 4G network expansion and data bundles offered by operators. Read Article