New Report Gives a Market Overview of Telecoms in the Cook Islands

DUBLIN, Ireland--(Business Wire)--
Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c92875) has announced the
addition of Cook Islands - Telecoms Market Overview & Statistics to
their offering.

Consisting of 15 islands spread over 2.2 million sq km, the Cook
Islands suffers from the same enormous problems of distance and small
population as do many other Pacific countries. All telecommunications
services are provided by the monopoly operator, Telecom Cook Islands
Ltd (TCI), which is majority owned by Telecom New Zealand. Around 85%
of households have fixed-line connections. A new GSM/GPRS digital
mobile service launched in Rarotonga, the main island, at the end of
2003. TCI launched a prepaid WiFi Internet service in September 2005
and a residential ADSL service on Rarotonga in April 2006. In mid 2007
TCI upgraded its core mobile network to allow the launch of new
services such as integrated SMS, voice mail, GPRS and prepaid mobile.
Please also note that this report is updated very infrequently due to
limited availability of information on the local telecoms market.
Up-to-date statistics are currently not available in this report.

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Contents:
1. Synopsis
2. Key statistics
3. Country overview
4. Telecommunications market
4.1 Cook Islands telecom market overview
5. Regulatory environment
6. Fixed network operators
6.1 Telecom Cook Islands Ltd
7. Telecommunications infrastructure
7.1 National and international
7.1.1 Satellite connections
7.1.2 Market developments - May 2007
8. Internet and broadband market
8.1 Internet
8.2 Broadband
8.3 Wireless broadband
8.4 Planned WiMAX trials
8.5 Public access terminals
8.6 ISP market
8.6.1 Oyster Internet Services
9. Mobile communications
9.1 Market overview
9.2 Mobile network upgrade - 2007
9.3 GSM/GPRS network history
9.4 Analogue network history
10. Broadcasting
10.1 Satellite TV
11. Related reports

Table 1 - Country statistics
Table 2 - Telephone network statistics - 2002
Table 3 - Internet provider statistics - 2005
Table 4 - Internet user statistics - 2005
Table 5 - Mobile statistics - September 2006
Table 6 - Fixed lines in service & teledensity (historical): 1997-2002
Table 7 - Internet users and penetration - 2001 - 2002; 2005
Table 8 - Mobile subscribers & penetration - 1997 - 2003; 2005 - 2006
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