The Trinidad and Tobago Telecommunications Authority has published
its first analysis of the Trinidad and Tobago Telecommunications and
Broadcasting Sectors from January and March 2006.

Some interesting data :

* In 2005, the estimated gross revenue take-up of the telecommunications
and broadcasting sectors totaled TT$ 3 billion. The breakdown :

- mobile services obtained the most revenues with approximately 41%
- fixed market accounted for 23%
- international market 12%
- radio 11%
- subscription broadcasting 9%
- internet services 4% of the total earnings for the year ending
December 2005.

* There are 10 main Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the Trinidad
and Tobago with a combined modem pool of more than 800 modems.

* Preliminary estimates for the first quarter of 2006 indicate that TSTT
has the majority share of the internet services market with a 60 per
cent market share based on subscribers. The AIISP is the second largest
with a 40 per cent share and the other ISPs accounted for 10 per cent of
the market.

* As at December 2005, the total number of subscribers was 91,932.
At the end of the first quarter of 2006 the number of high speed access
points increased to 17,998.

* The number of persons using the internet has grown to an estimated
198,000 persons as at March 2006,


Download the Domestic Market Analysis January-March 2006 :
http://www.tatt.org.tt/ddocs/Market_updateMarch_o6.pdf (PDF; 757KB)


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Dev T
Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society at http://www.ttcsweb.org/
"networking local computer users!"