• Published September 2013
  
• 219 MNOs
  
• 650+ Management Contacts
  
• 90 new to this edition
  
• Q1 2008 - Q4 2012 Mobile Subscriber Datasets

North American Countries covered: 

Canada - USA

South American Countries covered:

Anguilla - Antigua and Barbuda - Argentina - Aruba - Bahamas - Barbados - Belize - Bermuda - Bolivia - Brazil - British Virgin Islands - Chile - Colombia - Costa Rica - Cuba - Dominica - Dominican Republic - Ecuador - El Salvador - Falkland Islands - French West Indies and French Guiana - Grand Cayman - Grenada - Guatemala - Guyana - Haiti - Honduras - Jamaica - Mexico - Montserrat - Formerly Netherlands Antilles - (Bonaire - Curaçao - Saba - St. Eustatius - St. Maarten) - Nicaragua - Panamá - Paraguay - Peru - Puerto Rico - Saint Kitts and Nevis - Saint Lucia - Saint Pierre and Miquelon - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Suriname - Trinidad and Tobago - Turks and Caicos Islands - Uruguay - US Virgin Islands (USVI) & Venezuela. 

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The American continent is shared by 219 operators, with 61 of those located in just the USA. This incredibly large sum of operations is a result of the way wireless services were rolled out throughout the country. Each county (and often each town) had its own fixed line service provider. These operators worked in small cooperatives or off their own back to set up and build out their own base stations and back haul having gained individual licenses. The downfall of course was the lack of nationwide coverage, or even coverage outside of the reach of 1 (or a couple at most) base stations. To date this is why the biggest players are AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile. The US market presents ongoing opportunities for acquisitions, such as the recent merger of MetroPCS into T-Mobile. But not all small(er) players are being consumed, Verizon has been working with rural operators to assist its own roll out of 4G services; Verizon uses the spectrum won by these small players to build base stations for them, then both operators allow 4G roaming on each others’ network space. 

North of the border the Canadian market, although dominated by 3 players, also features this proliferation of networks. The latest edition tracks 18 offers, based on a population of approximately 34 million. The acquisition potential exists here too; notably Telus, which vies for 2nd place against Bell (in terms of subscriber market share), are acquiring Mobilicity.

The South American continent is a completely different set up to the North. The number of operators per country follows a more standard evolution from state monopoly, into duopoly and then some form of real market competition. To date Cuba remains the only nation with a purely state run offering. Outside of the mainland, the island nations are dominated by a competitive landscape made up of C&W (LIME), Digicel and UTS. This had lead to populations of fewer than 100,000 people having 3 networks competing for their business and technology platforms open to them on a par with the biggest economies in the world (such as HSPA+, often cited inaccurately as 4G in this region). The mainland key players are América Móvil (17 operations) and Telefónica (13 operations). Not seen elsewhere in the world, NII Holdings successfully operates a series of iDEN networks with a cumulative subscriber base exceeding 11 million customers.

LTE deployments are growing across South America and the island nations are seeing HSPA+ deployments thanks to Digicel. Across North America the deployment of LTE is mainstream. This is a growth market full of opportunities and a definite for inclusion in your marketing efforts.

As with all our database publications, research was conducted in house and has built upon the previous editions. Subscriber data is as at Q4 2012. For Canada and the USA major operator subscriber numbers are included with some listings for smaller regional operations, providing data for all small operations is not feasible. For South America Data is provided for Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica (Q4 2012 only), Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela. Data is not provided for most island nations and some amalgamated data has been presented due to operators refusing to provide data on a country basis.