Germany - Key Statistics, Telecom Market and Regulatory Overviews

Synopsis

Germany has Europe’s largest telecom market, with average penetration in the broadband and mobile sectors. Both the fixed network and broadband markets are dominated by Telekom Deutschland, though other notable players including freenet, Vodafone and Telefónica have gained market share as the incumbent continues to rebound from poor recent performance.

This report introduces the key aspects of the German telecom market, providing comprehensive data on the country’s fixed network infrastructure as well as key regulatory developments including the status of interconnection, local loop unbundling, number portability, and carrier preselection. It also profiles the major operators, and details the development of Next Generation Networks and the battle between the EC, the government and incumbent on NGN access.

Key developments:

EU compels Telekom to provide access to VDSL network; Telekom reports 6.8% fall in revenue in 9M 2011; telecom market revenue showing continued contraction; Telekom Deutschland pursues new fibre-based strategy; France Telekom and Telekom joint procurement venture comes on-stream; regulator approves new LLU access charges to mid-2013; regulator’s market data for 2011; VATM market data for 2010 and update to September 2011; operator market data to September 2011.

Companies covered in this report include:

Telekom Deutschland, freenet, BT Global Services, Tele2 Germany, Telefónica Germany.

1. Synopsis
2. Key statistics
3. Telecommunications market
- 3.1 Overview of Germany’s telecom market
- 3.2 Market analysis
4. Regulatory environment
- 4.1 History
  - 4.1.1 EU regulatory framework
- 4.2 Regulatory authority
  - 4.2.1 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA)
- 4.3 Telecom sector liberalisation in Germany
  - 4.3.1 Privatisation of Deutsche Telekom
  - 4.3.2 Interconnect
  - 4.3.3 Access
- 4.4 Number Portability (NP)
- 4.5 Carrier PreSelection (CPS)
- 4.6 Wholesale Line Rental (WLR)
5. Fixed network operators
- 5.1 Market overview
- 5.2 Telekom Deutschland
  - 5.2.1 Operator overview and statistics
  - 5.2.2 Structural review
  - 5.2.3 Performance in 2011
  - 5.2.4 Strategy in 2012
  - 5.2.5 Sales and acquisitions
- 5.3 Vodafone
  - 5.3.1 Operator overview and statistics
- 5.4 Freenet
  - 5.4.1 Operator overview and statistics
- 5.5 Debitel
  - 5.5.1 Operator overview and statistics
- 5.6 BT Global Services
  - 5.6.1 Operator overview
- 5.7 Tele2
  - 5.7.1 Operator overview and statistics
- 5.8 Telefónica
  - 5.8.1 Operator overview and statistics
6. Telecommunications infrastructure
- 6.1 National telecom network
- 6.2 Next Generation Network (NGN)
- 6.3 International infrastructure
  - 6.3.1 Submarine cable networks
  - 6.3.2 Satellite networks
- 6.4 Regulatory issues
  - 6.4.1 Wholesaling
7. Related reports

Table 1 – Country statistics – 2011 (e)
Table 2 – Telecom revenue and investment statistics – 2011 (e)
Table 3 – Telephone network statistics – 2011 (e)
Table 4 – Internet user statistics – June 2011
Table 5 – Broadband statistics – 2011 (e)
Table 6 – Mobile statistics – 2011 (e)
Table 7 – National telecommunications authority
Table 8 – Fixed-line investments, Telekom and altnets – 1998 - 2011
Table 9 – New entrants’ market share, select sectors – 2007 - 2010
Table 10 – Telecom service by type; annual change – 2009 - 2011
Table 11 – Telecom market revenue – 1998 - 2011
Table 12 – Telecom market revenue: Telekom and altnets (regulator data) – 1998 - 2011
Table 13 – Telecom market investment: Telekom and altnets (regulator data) – 1998 - 2011
Table 14 – Telecom market investment: fixed and mobile (regulator data) – 1998 - 2011
Table 15 – IT revenue – 2008 - 2012
Table 16 – Telecom traffic, fixed and mobile – 1998 - 2012
Table 17 – Competitor market share of services by type – 2009- 2011
Table 18 – Unbundled loops and access lines – 2003 - 2011
Table 19 – LLU, shared access price – connection and monthly rental – 2006 - 2009
Table 20 – Telekom Deutschland unbundled lines – 2008 - 2011
Table 21 – Annual fixed-line portings – 2004 - 2011
Table 22 – CPS, Call by Call and direct call traffic – 2005 - 2011
Table 23 – PreSelection lines – 1999 - 2011
Table 24 – Fixed-line market revenue – 1998 - 2011
Table 25 – Fixed-telephony channels by type (VATM data) – 2006 - 2011
Table 26 – Competitor share of telephone channels (VATM data) – 1998 - 2011
Table 27 – Market share of altnet telephone channels by type – 2006 - 2011
Table 28 – Proportion of voice traffic by sector – 2005 - 2011
Table 29 – Altnet fixed-lines by type – 2005 - 2010
Table 30 – Telekom Deutschland domestic revenue – 2009 - 2011
Table 31 – Telekom Deutschland domestic subscribers by sector – 2008 - 2011
Table 32 – Deutsche Telekom Group financial data – 2005 - 2011
Table 33 – Vodafone fixed-line revenue – 2005 - 2011
Table 34 – Freenet fixed network subscribers by sector – 2005 - 2011
Table 35 – Freenet financial data by segment – 2005 - 2011
Table 36 – debitel subscribers data (historic) – 2004 - 2007
Table 37 – debitel financial data (historic) – 2004 - 2007
Table 38 – Tele2 subscriber statistics by sector – 2007 - 2011
Table 39 – Tele2 revenue by sector – 2007 - 2011
Table 40 – O2 Germany subscribers by sector – 2007 - 2011
Table 41 – O2 Germany financial data – 2007 - 2011
Table 42 – Fixed lines in service, Telekom and altnets – 2000 - 2012