Germany - Mobile Market - Overview, Statistics & Forecasts

Synopsis

The German mobile market is the largest in Europe in terms of subscribers and revenue. Mobile penetration reached more than 130% by early 2009. In common with most markets the main area of growth is in the 3G sector. The market is dominated by T-Mobile and Vodafone, though an increasing number of resellers has fuelled competition and placed pressure on tariffs, resulting in lower ARPU. Regulatory pressure on voice roaming as well as termination rates from April 2009 will encouraged operators to further step-up their development of data applications to improve profits. In this report we provide key statistics and analysis on the mobile market in Germany in 2010, including an overview of the main operators together with 3G subscriber and mobile ARPU forecasts to 2015.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
  
• 2. Overview of Germany’s mobile market
  
  • 2.1 Mobile statistics
    
  • 2.2 Operator market shares
    
• 3. Regulatory issues
  
  • 3.1 Regulatory authority
    
  • 3.2 Spectrum regulations and spectrum auctions
    
    • 3.2.1 790-862 MHz
      
    • 3.2.2 3.4-3.6GHz
      
    • 3.2.3 2.6GHz
      
    • 3.2.4 Digital dividend spectrum – 790-862 MHz
      
    • 3.2.5 Refarming GSM spectrum
      
    • 3.2.6 Other spectrum
      
  • 3.3 Roaming
    
  • 3.4 Number portability
    
  • 3.5 Fixed-to-mobile call charges
    
  • 3.6 Mobile Termination Rates (MTRs)
    
• 4. Mobile technologies
  
  • 4.1 Digital
    
  • 4.2 Fixed-mobile convergence
    
• 5. Major mobile operators
  
  • 5.1 T-Mobile
    
    • 5.1.1 Network contracts
      
  • 5.2 Vodafone
    
    • 5.2.1 Network contracts
      
  • 5.3 E-Plus
    
    • 5.3.1 Network contracts
      
  • 5.4 O2
    
    • 5.4.1 Network contracts
      
  • 5.5 Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs)
    
    • 5.5.1 freenet
      
    • 5.5.2 CallMobile
      
  • 5.6 Regional operators
    
• 6. Mobile voice services
  
  • 6.1 Prepaid cards
    
  • 6.2 Mobile VoIP
    
• 7. Forecasts – mobile market to 2015
  
  • 7.1 Mobile ARPU forecasts to 2015
    
  • 7.2 UMTS forecasts to 2015
    
  • 7.3 Notes on scenario forecasts
    
• 8. Related reports
  

• Table 1 – Mobile operator share of revenue – 2008 - 2009
• Table 2 – Mobile traffic in minutes – 1999 - 2008
• Table 3 – Mobile operators, subscribers and annual change – Sep 2009
• Table 4 – Mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 1995 - 2010
• Table 5 – Mobile market share of subscribers by operator – 2000 - 2009
• Table 6 – European roaming charges – 2007 - 2009
• Table 7 – Cumulative mobile numbers ported – 2002 - 2008
• Table 8 – Mobile termination tariffs by operator – 2007 - 2010
• Table 9 – T-Mobile financial data (Germany) – 2005 - 2009
• Table 10 – T-Mobile subscribers in selected European countries – 2001 - 2008
• Table 11 – T-Mobile monthly ARPU (Germany) – 2005 - 2007
• Table 12 – Vodafone Germany mobile subscriber statistics – 2002 - 2009
• Table 13 – Vodafone Germany – mobile financial data – 2003 - 2009
• Table 14 – E-Plus - mobile operating and financial data – 2005 - 2009
• Table 15 – E-Plus net adds: prepaid / contract – 2006 - 2009
• Table 16 – O2 subscribers – contract and prepaid – 2005 - 2009
• Table 17 – O2 revenue and monthly ARPU – 2006 - 2009
• Table 18 – Mobile service provider share of subscribers – 2006 - 2009
• Table 19 – Freenet Group subscribers – 2007 - 2009
• Table 20 – Freenet Group ARPU – 2007 - 2009
• Table 21 – Freenet (mobile) financial data – 2007 - 2009
• Table 22 – Prepaid customer share of all subscribers – 2000 - 2008
• Table 23 – Forecast mobile ARPU - 2005 - 2010; 2012 - 2015
• Table 24 – Forecast UMTS subscribers – 2006 - 2010; 2012 - 2015