Europe - Telecommunications - Market Overview

Synopsis

This report introduces the European telecommunications market. The expanded European Union (EU) accounts for the lion’s share of the market, although growth in 2004/5 is also booming in the eastern European countries. Most countries are seeing the stabilisation of market growth for voice telephony, with overall market expansion driven by mobile telephony, broadband Internet access and to a lesser extent the continued impact of the Internet on citizens, governments and businesses. After a slow 2002-3, ICT market growth recovered in 2004 and expected to reach 4% in 2005.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
• 2. Europe’s telecom market
  • 2.1 Overview
  • 2.2 EITO statistics and forecasts
    • 2.2.1 European overview
    • 2.2.2 Europe (EU plus Switzerland and Norway)
    • 2.2.3 Central and Eastern Europe
  • 2.3 Key issues for 2005 and beyond
    • 2.3.1 The Incumbents – debt reduction
    • 2.3.2 The local loop
    • 2.3.3 Mobile data – 2.5G
    • 2.3.4 Mobile data – 3G
  • 2.4 The European Union
    • 2.4.1 Europe is not just the EU
    • 2.4.2 EU15
    • 2.4.3 Candidate countries
  • 2.5 EMU and the €
• 3. Related reports

• Table 1 – Total Europe ICT Market – 2003
• Table 1 – Sample debt levels of major Western European telcos – 2002 - 2003