Jordan Fixed Phone Market

An interesting note from the Jordan TRC's  Telecom Market Statistics:

 

While in Jordan there is only one fixed phone operator which is Orange (formerly Jordan Telecom) The number of employees in the Fixed Phone is higher than the total number of employees in the 4 Mobile Operators (3 GSM and 1 iDEN).

 

However not only the total number of fixed phone subscriber is less than 10% of the fixed phone subscribers but also the number of fixed line subscribers is declining by an average of 6%

 

Does this tell anything about fixed line employees job security? Is it the natural trend of having less fixed subscribers towards the mobile subscribers? Or is this Orange fixed fault which until now has not provided any new service over the fixed line since they introduced the ADSL back in 2000!!  People are talking about Quad-Play and FTTH but Orange is running a big advertising  campaign for their 1MBps ADSL which is ridiculously capped at 10GB/month!

 

I remember when Mr. Mickael Ghossein (the former CEO of Orange Jordan who's set to stand down and moved French telco's Kenyan operation as CEO of Orange Kenya), anyway on November 2008, Mr. Ghossein came to the popular Jordanian TV show "yes3ed saba7ak" and announces the launch of the highest speed broadband internet in the region; he literary said that no one in the middle east is providing the 8MBps speed on fixed internet and the maximum speed available currently is in the Gulf countries which is the 7.2 wireless HSDPA! At that exact date I was in Oman and the house I used to live in used to have an 8MBps ADSL connection since June, 2008 (5 months earlier) the 8MBps and even the 16MBps ADSL  has been available in the country for at least 1 year earlier!!!