Connected Consumer Survey 2020: OTT communication services in the Middle East

22 January 2021 | Research

Survey report | PPTX and PDF (10 slides); Excel | Future Comms


"Operator-sponsored OTT VoIP services are popular with the large expat population in the region."

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This report focuses on aspects of Analysys Mason's Connected Consumer Survey that relate to the behaviour, preferences and plans of smartphone users in the Middle East. In particular, it focuses on respondents' usage of over-the-top (OTT) communication services.

This report:

  • identifies which communications apps are used the most in the Middle East
  • highlights the pockets of growth that remain in the OTT communication market
  • identifies which features are used the most on communication apps
  • discusses the ways in which consumers balance their use of OTT communications with that of traditional services
  • identifies consumers’ preferred channels for communicating with brands.

Survey data coverage

The research was conducted between August and September 2020. The survey groups were chosen to be representative of the mobile-internet-using population in the Middle East. We set quotas on age, gender and geographical spread to that effect. There were a minimum of 750 respondents per country.

Geographical coverage

  • Kuwait
  • Oman
  • Saudi Arabia
  • UAE

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