Europe - Mobile Market - Overview & Statistics

Synopsis

Most of Europe’s mobile markets are saturated – only three countries in 2008 had less than 110% penetration. Continuing growth is largely in the 3G sector as subscribers migrate from GSM networks. Operators have encouraged this migration in a bid to exploit the potential raised by their investments in HSPA technology. Although the proportion of data to overall revenue has increased for most network operators, mobile data use remains stubbornly low as subscribers remain sceptical of the usefulness of many data applications as well as their high cost. Regulatory controls on data roaming and increasing competition among providers will go some way to address this in coming years. This report provides key statistics and analysis on Europe’s mobile phone market in 2009, including data on subscriber numbers, mobile penetration, and market growth. The report assesses legal issues relating to interconnection voice and data roaming, as well as the status of analogue and digital technologies. The principal mobile operators across Europe are also profiled, including statistics on their customer base, financial results and strategies for coming years.

1. Synopsis
2. Mobile communications in Europe
- 2.1 Market overview
- 2.2 Investment forecasts
- 2.3 Leading European nations by subscribers
- 2.4 Leading European nations by penetration
- 2.5 Leading European nations by growth
3. Regulatory environment
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Roaming
  - 3.2.1 Amendments
  - 3.2.2 Data roaming
- 3.3 Mobile termination rates (MTRs)
- 3.4 Mobile number portability (MNP)
- 3.5 Other developments
  - 3.5.1 Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA)
  - 3.5.2 Mobile VoIP
  - 3.5.3 Femtocells
4. Mobile technologies
- 4.1 Analogue networks
- 4.2 Digital networks
- 4.3 Spectrum issues
- 4.4 Third Generation (3G)
  - 4.4.1 TD-SCDMA trials in Europe
- 4.5 Mobile handsets
  - 4.5.1 Nokia
  - 4.5.2 Sony Ericsson
  - 4.5.3 Motorola
  - 4.5.4 Huawei
  - 4.5.5 iPhone
  - 4.5.6 Android
  - 4.5.7 BlackBerry
- 4.6 Mobile satellite
5. Mobile prepaid market
- 5.1 Prepaid services
6. Major mobile operators
- 6.1 Market overview
- 6.2 O2
- 6.3 Orange
- 6.4 Telefónica
- 6.5 Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM)
- 6.6 T-Mobile
- 6.7 Vodafone
- 6.8 H3
- 6.9 Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs)
7. Mobile alliances
- 7.1 FreeMove
- 7.2 Starmap
8. Related reports

Table 1 – Annualised European voice and data market annual growth – 2006 - 2008
Table 2 – Voice market Europe in minutes – 2000; 2005; 2010
Table 3 – Mobile penetration by country – June 2008
Table 4 – GSM price basket – selected European countries – 2006 - 2008
Table 5 – European mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 1997 - 2008
Table 6 – Mobile market share by operator type and country – October 2007
Table 7 – Mobile market share by operator type – 2004 - 2007
Table 8 – Mobile network operator ARPU – Q2 2008
Table 9 – Data as proportion of total mobile revenue – Q2 2008
Table 10 – Top 10 European nations by subscribers and annual change – June 2008
Table 11 – Top 10 European nations by penetration – 2006 - 2008
Table 12 – Fastest mobile growth by nation and annual growth – 2006 - 2008
Table 13 – European roaming charges – 2007 - 2009
Table 14 – Proposed European roaming charges – 2009 - 2012
Table 15 – Top ten European SMS roaming charges – 2007
Table 16 – Top ten European roaming charges per MB – Q3 2007
Table 17 – EU average mobile termination charges – 2004 - 2008
Table 18 – Ported mobile numbers as % of total – 2006 - 2007
Table 19 – Mobile numbers ported – 2005 - 2007
Table 20 – GSM subscribers – 1997 - 2008
Table 21 – 3G subscribers – 2004 - 2008
Table 22 – Camera phone sales and forecasts - 2005 - 2006; 2010
Table 23 – Market shares of handset makers – 2003 - 2008
Table 24 – Sony Ericsson financial data – 2006 - 2007
Table 25 – Sony Ericsson operating data – 2007 – 2008
Table 26 – Motorola operating data – Q3 2007 - Q3 2008
Table 27 – Prepaid proportion of all subscribers in European countries – September 2008
Table 28 – O2 Group mobile subscribers – 2005 - 2008
Table 29 – O2 Group turnover and EBITDA – 2002 - 2008
Table 30 – O2 Group blended monthly ARPU – 2006 - 2008
Table 31 – Orange mobile subscribers by sector – 2005 - 2008
Table 32 – Orange mobile revenue – 2005 - 2008
Table 33 – Telefónica (Europe) mobile subscribers by sector – 2007 - 2008
Table 34 – TIM mobile subscribers and traffic in minutes – 2005 - 2008
Table 35 – T-Mobile subscribers in selected European countries – 2001 - 2008
Table 36 – T-Mobile ARPU in selected European countries – 2006 - 2008
Table 37 – Vodafone blended ARPU (principal markets) - 2005 - 2008
Table 38 – Vodafone subscribers (principal markets) - 2005 - 2008
Table 39 – Vodafone voice usage - 2005 - 2008
Table 40 – H3 subscribers - June 2008
Table 41 – Number of network operators, resellers and MVNOs - 2000 - 2007