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COMMUNICATION MARKETS MONITORING SYSTEM no. 1/2017 Servizio Economico Statistico Index 1. Electronic communications 3. Postal services and express couriers 1.1 Total fixed access lines 3.1 Postal services and express couriers: revenues 1.2 Alternative operators’ fixed access lines 3.2 Postal services and express couriers: volumes 1.3 Broadband fixed lines 1.4 Broadband fixed lines by speed 4. Communication services’ prices 1.5 Broadband fixed lines by speed and operator 4.1 Harmonised consumer price index and other utilities price indices 1.6 Mobile subscribers 4.2 Mobile and fixed telephony price indices 1.7 Mobile subscribers by type of customer 4.3 Daily newspapers, magazines, TV and postal services price indices 1.8 Mobile subscribers by type of contract 4.4 International benchmark 1.9 Mobile data traffic 1.10 Mobile number portability 2. Media 2.1 Media: TV audience and newspapers’ sales 2.2 Media: radio and Internet audience The following figures are based on AGCOM’s elaborations on firms’ data and other sources (updated to December 2016) 2 Servizio Economico Statistico 1.1 Total fixed access lines Lines [mln] 60 55.7 Market shares – December 2016 [%] 21.75 21.10 20 20.57 20.30 20.29 20.27 20.22 20.27 7.75 7.89 15 13.1 8.09 8.56 8.69 8.80 8.85 8.98 15 11.9 11.4 10 10 14.00 13.21 12.48 Wind 11.74 11.60 11.47 Others 5 11.37 11.29 5 Telecom Italia Telecom Fastweb Tiscali Vodafone Linkem 3.5 2.4 0 0 2.0 Dec.-12 Dec.-13 Dec.-14 Dec.-15 Mar.-16 June-16 Sept.-16 Dec.-16 +2 Telecom Italia's fixed access lines -2.1 -0.3 Other operators' fixed access lines Last four quarters 0 Total +0.8 +0.9 +0.5 +0.3 Note: access lines include Telecom Italia’s fixed access lines, fully unbundled, SLU, -2 VULA, DSL naked, WLR, fiber and FWA lines Difference vs. December 2015 (percentage points) ● On a quarterly basis, total access lines have increased by 50 thousand ● Telecom Italia’s market share dropped to 55.7% at the end of December units 2016 (as compared to 57.8% at the end of December 2015) ● While Telecom Italia’s access lines have decreased by 80 thousand units, ● Fastweb’s market share has reached 11.9%, with a growth of 0.8 pp (YoY); other operators’ access lines have increased by about 130 thousand similarly, Vodafone’s market share has reached 11.4% with a growth of 0.9 units pp ● Other operators have, as a whole, increased their market share by 0.3 pp (YoY); the increase has been more evident for Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) operators 3 Servizio Economico Statistico 1.2 Alternative operators’ fixed access lines Lines [mln] Distribution of alternative operators fixed access lines – 8.80 8.85 8.98 8.56 8.69 1.27 December 2016 [%] 8 8.09 1.24 1.26 1.26 29.6 7.75 7.89 1.23 1.11 1.18 0.44 0.42 0.39 1.11 0.50 0.47 30 26.9 0.77 0.88 1.08 0.67 0.59 0.53 0.66 25.8 6 0.80 20 4 5.21 5.17 5.14 5.05 4.94 5.24 Wind 5.26 5.35 Fastweb Others 10 Vodafone 2 Tiscali Linkem 7.8 5.4 0.74 0.77 0.80 0.83 0.85 4.5 0.28 0.41 0.53 0 0 0.29 0.30 0.32 0.36 0.37 0.39 0.42 0.45 Dec.-12 Dec.-13 Dec.-14 Dec.-15 Mar.-16 June-16 Sept.-16 Dec.-16 +2 -2.1 -0.4 Last four quarters 0 +0.2 +0.8 +0.8 +0.4 ULL (including SLU -VULA - Wholsale Naked -2 Total Fiber FWA Virtual ULL) Bitstream NGA Line Rental DSL Difference vs. December 2015 (percentage points) Own Network Access to Telecom Italia's network ● Access lines provided by alternative operators have increased by 420 ● Wind is still the first alternative operator, but its share has shown a thousand units (YoY) decrease of 2.1 pp (YoY) ● A substantial part of this growth (550 thousand lines) is essentially due to ● Vodafone holds 25.8% of alternative operators lines, with a growth of 0.8 the new NGA services offered by Telecom Italia (SLU and VULA) that pp (YoY) compensate for the reduction in ULL and WLR lines (-380 thousand lines) ● The cumulative growth of Linkem and other operators (1.2 pp YoY) is ● FWA lines have increased by 120 thousand units (YoY), while fiber lines essentially due to the increase of the number of FWA lines; Linkem have increased by 90 thousand units reached 4.5% (+0.8 pp) 4 Servizio Economico Statistico 1.3 Broadband fixed lines 45.9 Lines [mln] 45 Market shares – December 2016 [%] 16 15.43 15.56 14.99 15.19 15.29 14.34 13.76 14.01 14.5 15.1 15 12 13.6 12.55 10 12.81 12.69 12.43 12.21 8 13.03 13.17 13.22 Wind 5 Fastweb 4.8 Telecom Italia Telecom Vodafone Tiscali 4 Linkem 3.4 2.6 Others 3.00 3.36 0 2.18 2.50 2.74 1.31 0 0.59 0.78 +2 Dec.-12 Dec.-13 Dec.-14 Dec.-15 Mar.-16 June-16 Sept.-16 Dec.-16 -0.7 -0.8 -0.3 0 0.5 0.1 Other technologies DSL Total Last four quarters +0.5 +0.8 -2 Difference vs. December 2015 (percentage points) ● Broadband lines have increased by about 570 thousand units YoY ● Telecom Italia’s market share has reduced by 0.7 pp (YoY) ● DSL lines (12.21 million lines) have decreased by about 610 thousand ● Fastweb has become the second operator (15.1%), with a growth of 0.5 pp units (YoY), now accounting for the 78.5% of broadband lines ● Vodafone’s market share has reached 13.6%, with a growth of 0.8 pp (YoY) ● Other technologies, in particular NGA lines, have increased by 1.18 ● The cumulative growth of Linkem and other operators’ market share, is thousand units YoY essentially due to the increase in the number of FWA lines 5 Servizio Economico Statistico 1.4 Broadband fixed lines by speed Broadband access lines trend by speed classes [mln] (*) Access lines by speed classes [%] (*) 100 0.1 0.8 3.7 8.2 9.9 14.0 11.3 12.7 15.0 16 17.9 15.56 21.2 14.99 80 24.9 13.76 26.5 27.6 35.7 12 11.83 36.9 60 10.03 8 86.0 7.49 40 81.3 75.1 66.9 5.74 63.6 61.1 51.5 4 48.1 3.74 20 total access lines 1.92 2.33 < 10 Mbit/s 1.23 10 ≤ Mbit/s < 30 0 0.01 0 Dec.-12 Dec.-13 Dec.-14 Dec.-15 Mar.-16 June-16 Sept.-16 Dec.-16 ≥ 30 Mbit/s Dec.-12 Dec.-13 Dec.-14 Dec.-15 Mar.-16 June-16 Sept.-16 Dec.-16 Last four quarters Last four quarters ● Broadband lines faster than 10 Mbps have increased by more than 3.1 million units YoY and account for more than 50% of total broadband lines ● Broadband lines faster than 30 Mbps have increased by 1.1 thousand units YoY and account for 15% of total broadband lines (*) Due to changes in firms’ accounting methods, figures cannot be compared directly with those reported in previous issues 6 Servizio Economico Statistico 1.5 Broadband fixed lines by speed and operator < 10 Mbit/s 10 ≤ Mbit/s < 30 ≥ 30Mbit/s 60 58.9 42.4 40 40 30.4 30 30 30 27.5 25 25 22.2 25 22.3 20 20 20 17.1 15 15 15 12.2 13.7 9.8 10.9 Fastweb Telecom Italia Telecom Telecom Italia Telecom 10 10 Italia Telecom 10 Wind Linkem Vodafone Tiscali Others Others Others Fastweb Wind Tiscali Tiscali 5 Wind 5 5 Linkem 6.9 Linkem Vodafone 5.4 5.6 0.4 4.7 Fastweb Vodafone 4.0 2.6 0.1 2.7 0.0 0 0 0 ● In the segment below 10 Mbps, Telecom Italia, as a consequence of it’s historical monopolistic position, still holds 58.9% of lines ● Telecom Italia has shown the most conspicuous growth of ≥10 Mbps lines YoY (1.7 million units), followed by Wind (531 thousand units) and Vodafone (365 thousand units) ● Telecom Italia, Fastweb and Vodafone own together more than 90% of high-speed lines (faster than 30 Mbps) 7 Servizio Economico Statistico 1.6 Mobile subscribers Lines [mln] (*) Market shares – December 2016 [%] MVNO distribution 50.3 December 2016 [%] 50 100 98.6 98.8 97.5 96.9 97.0 97.5 97.7 98.2 30.2 29.4 30 30 22.1 80 60 94.1 93.6 90.8 90.0 90.0 90.4 90.5 90.9 14.9 15 15 11.0 11.0 40 11.0 Wind Vodafone Poste Mobile 6.9 Telecom Italia Telecom Erg Mobile Other Other MVNOs 20 Mobile Poste Fastweb H3G Coop Italia Lycamobile Other 3.7 3.7 5.9 MVNOs 6.7 6.9 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 0 0 0 4.5 5.2 Dec.-12 Dec.-13 Dec.-14 Dec.-15 Mar.-16 June-16 Sept.-16 Dec.-16 +2 +2 MVNO MNO Total -0.8 -0.7 -2.0 -2.8 Last four quarters 0 0 +0.7 +0.6 +0.3 +0.9 +1.4 +2.4 +0.1 MVNO = Virtual Operators MNO = Network Operators -2 -2 Difference vs.