COUNCIL OF Brussels, 27 May 2010 THE EUROPEAN UNION 10245/10 ADD 2 TELECOM 60 COVER NOTE from: Secretary-General of the European Commission, signed by Mr Jordi AYET PUIGARNAU, Director date of receipt: 26 May 2010 to: Mr Pierre de BOISSIEU, Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union Subject: Commission Staff Working Document accompanying the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions - Progress Report on the Single European Electronic Communications Market (15th Report) Delegations will find attached Commission document SEC(2010) 630 final (Partie 2). ________________________ Encl.: SEC(2010) 630 final (Partie 2) 10245/10 ADD 2 EV/ek 1 DG CIIB EN EUROPEAN COMMISSION Brussels, 25.5.2010 SEC(2010) 630 final PARTIE 2 COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT accompanying the COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS PROGRESS REPORT ON THE SINGLE EUROPEAN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS MARKET (15th REPORT) {COM(2010) 253} EN EN ANNEX 2 MARKET OVERVIEW METHODOLOGICAL NOTE The main sources for the data presented in this Annex are National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs), exceptions are noted. A validation meeting with representatives from NRAs took place in November 2009. Furthermore, draft versions of the charts in this annex (excluding data on tariffs) were distributed to the NRAs before this report was finalised for their comments. The source for the population figures is Eurostat. The source for the exchange rates is the European Central Bank. Prices are in Euros. Purchase power parity methodology is not used for the specific objective of this Report. In each Report figures from previous years are revised, therefore the figure for a certain date may diverge from previous Reports. EN 2 EN Table of contents 1. FINANCIAL INDICATORS ..............................................................................................7 1.1 Revenues and Investment of the Telecom Sector...............................................................7 1.2 Average Price per Minute (APPM) in mobile communications .......................................10 1.3 Average Revenue per User (ARPU) in mobile communications......................................11 2.MOBILE MARKET ..........................................................................................................12 2.1 Mobile penetration and market share ..............................................................................12 2.2 Mobile number portability ..............................................................................................18 2.3 Mobile Interconnection...................................................................................................20 2.4 Mobile Operators............................................................................................................23 2.5 Traffic ............................................................................................................................25 2.6 Mobile voice telephony tariffs ........................................................................................26 3. FIXED MARKET ............................................................................................................31 3.1 Fixed market share..........................................................................................................31 3.2 Direct Access..................................................................................................................40 3.3 Fixed number portability.................................................................................................48 3.4 Public Fixed voice telephony tariffs ................................................................................50 3.5 Fixed Interconnection .....................................................................................................74 4. BROADBAND MARKET ...............................................................................................76 4.1 Broadband access definitions ..........................................................................................76 4.2 Wholesale access ............................................................................................................78 4.3 Retail fixed broadband access .........................................................................................78 4.4 Retail mobile broadband access ......................................................................................90 4.5 Price of the Local Loop...................................................................................................92 5. CONVERGED SERVICES - BUNDLED OFFERS..........................................................99 6. BROADCASTING.........................................................................................................102 7. LEASED LINES TARIFFS ............................................................................................104 8. EXCHANGE RATES AND POPULATION ..................................................................108 9. OECD TELECOMMUNICATIONS BASKET DEFINITIONS......................................113 EN 3 EN Table of figures Figure 1: Investment / Revenues.............................................................................................8 Figure 2: Total Revenue and Investment over GDP ................................................................8 Figure 3: Telecom Revenues growth 2007-2008.....................................................................9 Figure 4: Telecom Investment growth 2007-2008...................................................................9 Figure 5: Mobile Price per minute ........................................................................................10 Figure 6: Average Revenue per user, Full year......................................................................11 Figure 7: Mobile penetration rate..........................................................................................14 Figure 8: Mobile penetration rate growth..............................................................................15 Figure 9: Prepaid vs postpaid................................................................................................16 Figure 10: Mobile market share based on subscribers ...........................................................17 Figure 11: Mobile number portability - transactions..............................................................18 Figure 12: Mobile number portability – number of ported numbers ......................................18 Figure 13: Time taken in number of days for mobile number portability...............................19 Figure 14: IC charges for call termination on mobile networks .............................................20 Figure 15: IC charges for call termination per operators........................................................21 Figure 16: 2G Mobile operators............................................................................................23 Figure 17: Mobile network operators....................................................................................23 Figure 18: UMTS licences....................................................................................................24 Figure 19: UMTS operators offering commercial services ....................................................24 Figure 20: Mobile network operators (main groups) .............................................................25 Figure 21: EU total voice calls by network (1-share).............................................................25 Figure 22: EU total voice calls by network (2- in millions of voice minutes).........................26 Figure 23: Fixed and mobile outgoing voice traffic 2008 ......................................................26 Figure 24: Average 2006-2009 Low usage basket postpaid...................................................28 Figure 25: Average 2006-2009 Low usage basket pre & postpaid .........................................28 Figure 26: Average 2006-2009 Medium usage basket postpaid.............................................29 Figure 27: Average 2006-2009 Medium usage basket pre & postpaid ...................................29 Figure 28: Average 2006-2009 High usage basket postpaid ..................................................30 Figure 29: Average 2006-2009 High usage basket pre & postpaid ........................................30 Figure 30: EU incumbents' overall average market share on the fixed voice telephony market (all types of calls) .................................................................................................................31 Figure 31: Herfindhal-Hirschman Index ...............................................................................32 Figure 32: Incumbent's market share – all types of calls by retail revenues ...........................33 Figure 33: Incumbent's market share – all types of calls by volume ......................................34 Figure 34: Incumbent's market share – national calls by revenues.........................................35 Figure 35: Incumbent's market share – national calls by volume ...........................................36 Figure 36: Incumbent's market share – international calls by revenues..................................37 Figure 37: Incumbent's market share