Italy - Key Statistics, Telecom Market & Regulatory Overviews

Synopsis

Italy’s large telecom market boats one of the highest rates for mobile penetration in Europe, while the fibre optic sector is also among the most developed. Broadband take-up is growing rapidly as a result of fibre and ADSL2+ infrastructure investments from Telecom Italia and alternative operators, though the country still lags behind benchmark countries for average broadband access speeds. The fixed-line sector continues to dwindle as consumers adopt mobile-only solutions and VoIP. This report analyses the key aspects of the Italian telecom market in 2008, providing the latest data and statistics on the country and the fixed network services sector. It also reviews the key regulatory issues including number portability and local loop unbundling, In addition, the report assess the effects of the government’s push for the Telecom Italia’s structural separation and the implications for open access for competitors.

1. Synopsis
2. Key statistics
3. Telecommunications market
- 3.1 Overview of Italy’s telecom market
4. Regulatory environment
- 4.1 Regulatory authority
  - 4.1.1 Communications Regulatory Authority (AGCOM)
- 4.2 Telecom sector liberalisation in Italy
  - 4.2.1 Privatisation of Telecom Italia
  - 4.2.2 Interconnect
  - 4.2.3 Access
  - 4.2.4 Number portability (NP)
  - 4.2.5 Carrier PreSelection (CPS)
5. Fixed network operators in Italy
- 5.1 Overview of operators
- 5.2 Telecom Italia
  - 5.2.1 Performance into 2008
  - 5.2.2 Aims to 2010
  - 5.2.3 Losing direction?
  - 5.2.4 Organisational change
  - 5.2.5 Functional separation
  - 5.2.6 Company sale
- 5.3 Wind
  - 5.3.1 2007 results
  - 5.3.2 Going into 2008
- 5.4 BT Italia
- 5.5 Tiscali
  - 5.5.1 Company break-up
- 5.6 FASTWEB
  - 5.6.1 Company sale
6. Telecommunications infrastructure
- 6.1 National telecom network
- 6.2 International
  - 6.2.1 Submarine cable networks
  - 6.2.2 Satellite networks
- 6.3 Infrastructure developments
  - 6.3.1 Next Generation Network (NGN)
7. Related reports

Table 1 – Country statistics – 2008
Table 2 – Telecom revenue and investment statistics – 2006
Table 3 – Telephone network statistics – March 2008
Table 4 – Internet user statistics – June 2008
Table 5 – Broadband statistics – March 2008
Table 6 – Mobile statistics – March 2008
Table 7 – National telecommunications authority
Table 8 – Fixed and mobile market investment (historic) and annual change – 2004 - 2005
Table 9 – Fixed termination rates by company – 2007 - 2010
Table 10 – Telecom Italia unbundled lines – 2005 - 2007
Table 11 – Unbundled loops and access lines – 2004 - 2008
Table 12 – LLU, shared access price - connection, monthly rental – 2004 - 2007
Table 13 – Forecast wholesale market share – 2007 - 2010
Table 14 – Numbers ported – 2002 - 2007
Table 15 – CPS lines – 2005 - 2008
Table 16 –Fixed telephony and broadband market forecasts – 2006 - 2011
Table 17 – Comparative fixed network expenditure – 2007
Table 18 – Fixed network market share – 2007 - 2008
Table 19 – Telecom Italia accesses by sector – 2006 - 2008
Table 20 – Telecom Italia financial data: domestic and total – 2005 - 2007
Table 21 – Telecom Italia fixed network revenue by sector – 2006 - 2007
Table 22 – Telecom Italia financial data by sector and annual change – 2007 - 2008
Table 23 – Wind subscribers by sector – 2006 - 2008
Table 24 – Wind annualised fixed-line ARPU – 2006 - 2008
Table 25 – Wind financial data by sector and annual change – 2006 - 2007
Table 26 – Wind financial data by sector and annual change – 2007 - 2008
Table 27 – Tiscali subscribers by sector (Italy) – 2007 - 2008
Table 28 – Tiscali revenue by sector (Italy) – 2006 - 2008
Table 29 – Tiscali revenue breakdown by sector – 2007 - 2008
Table 30 – Tiscali ARPU – 2006 - 2008
Table 31 – Tiscali Group financial data – 2006 - 2008
Table 32 – FASTWEB financial data – 2005 - 2008
Table 33 – FASTWEB broadband subscribers – 2005 - 2008
Table 34 – FASTWEB broadband ARPU – 2006 - 2007
Table 35 – Telecom Italia network distances – June 2008