Austria - Key Statistics, Telecom Market and Regulatory Overviews

Synopsis

Austria’s telecom market is dominated by the incumbent Telekom Austria and the cableco UPC, though there has been greater competitive pressure in the fixed-line and mobile sectors in recent years. The regulator has also encouraged local loop unbundling to improve competition in the broadband market, and has introduced ‘virtual’ unbundling in the fibre sector. This report presents key aspects of the Austrian telecom market in 2011, including statistical data on the country, the fixed network services sector and telecom infrastructure. It presents an overview of recent regulatory developments, including broadband access and carrier preselection. The major fixed network operators are also profiled, together with the most recent performance data and an analysis on market strategies.

Key developments:

Telekom Austria expands in CEE through additional acquisitions; infrastructure investment increases 25% in 2010; mobile sector revenue accounting for two-thirds of total telecom revenue; regulator’s end-2010 market data; operator data to Q1 2011.

Companies covered in this report include:

Telekom Austria, Tele2, tele.ring, eTel Austria, UPC Austria.

1. Synopsis
2. Key statistics
3. Telecommunications market
- 3.1 Overview of Austria’s telecom market
4. Regulatory environment
- 4.1 History
  - 4.1.1 EU regulatory framework
  - 4.1.2 Revised NFR
- 4.2 Regulatory authorities
  - 4.2.1 Austrian Regulatory Authority for Broadcasting and Telecommunications
  - 4.2.2 Telekom Control Commission
  - 4.2.3 Austrian Communications Authority (KommAustria)
- 4.3 Telecom sector liberalisation in Austria
  - 4.3.1 Privatisation of Telekom Austria
  - 4.3.2 Interconnect
  - 4.3.3 Access
- 4.4 Number portability (NP)
- 4.5 Carrier PreSelection (CPS)
5. Fixed network operators in Austria
- 5.1 Telekom Austria
  - 5.1.1 Consolidating European markets
- 5.2 Tele2UTA
- 5.3 tele.ring
- 5.4 UPC Austria
- 5.5 eTel Austria
6. Telecommunications infrastructure
- 6.1 National telecom network
- 6.2 Next Generation Network (NGN)
- 6.3 Structural separation
- 6.4 Wholesaling
- 6.5 International infrastructure
  - 6.5.1 Submarine cable networks
  - 6.5.2 Satellite networks
7. Related reports

Table 1 – Country statistics Austria – 2011 (e)
Table 2 – Telecom revenue and investment statistics – 2010
Table 3 – Telephone network statistics – 2010
Table 4 – Internet user statistics – Mar 2011
Table 5 – Broadband statistics – 2011 (e)
Table 6 – Mobile statistics – 2011 (e)
Table 7 – National telecommunications authorities
Table 8 – Retail telecoms revenue by sector – 2003 - 2010
Table 9 – Retail telecoms revenue by sector – 2003 – 2010
Table 10 – Telecom traffic by sector – 2003 - 2010
Table 11 – Market share of retail telecoms revenue by sector – 2003 - 2010
Table 12 – Telecom investments – 2004 - 2012
Table 13 – LLU, shared access price – connection, monthly rental – 2006 - 2009
Table 14 – Telekom Austria unbundled lines – 2008 - 2011
Table 15 –Ported numbers by year– 2006 - 2010
Table 16 – CPS and CbC lines – 2004 - 2010
Table 17 – Fixed-line retail revenue – 1997 - 2010
Table 18 – Telekom Austria Group financial data – 2001 - 2010
Table 19 – Telekom Austria: PSTN and ISDN access lines – 2005 - 2011
Table 20 – Telekom Austria: retail and wholesale DSL lines – 2005 - 2011
Table 21 – Telekom Austria: retail and wholesale DSL lines – 2005 – 2011
Table 22 – Telekom Austria traffic statistics in minutes – 2006 - 2010
Table 23 – Telekom Austria traffic statistics, annual change – 2009 - 2010
Table 24 – Telekom Austria financial data by sector and annual change – 2007 - 2010
Table 25 – Tele2 financial data by sector – 2007 - 2011
Table 26 – Tele2 subscribers – 2007 - 2011
Table 27 – UPC Austria revenue and annual change – 2005 - 2010
Table 28 – UPC Austria subscribers – 2006 – 2011
Table 29 – Fixed lines in service and teledensity – 1999 - 2012