Italy - Key Statistics, Telecom Market and Regulatory Overviews

Synopsis

Italy’s large telecom market boasts one of the highest rates for mobile penetration in Europe, while the fibre-optic sector has seen significant development in recent years, both in operator investment and in regulatory measures. Broadband uptake is growing rapidly as a result of fibre and ADSL2+ infrastructure upgrades, 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, 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 Telecom Italia’s structural separation and the implications for open access for competitors.

Key developments:

Regulator addresses fibre network open access; proposed FiberCo to coordinate fibre deployments to 20 million people in 15 cities by 2015; Telecom Italia commitment to deliver FttH/FttB to an additional 138 cities by 2018; regulator’s Q3 2011 market data update; operator data to September 2011; market developments to early 2012.

Companies covered in this report include:

Telecom Italia, Fastweb, Wind, BT Italia, Tiscali.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
• 2. Key statistics
• 3. Telecommunications market
  • 3.1 Overview of Italy’s telecom market
  • 3.2 Economic difficulties
• 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 in 2011
    • 5.2.2 Losing direction?
    • 5.2.3 Organisational change
    • 5.2.4 Functional separation
    • 5.2.5 Company sale
  • 5.3 Wind Telecom
  • 5.4 BT Italia
  • 5.5 Tiscali
    • 5.5.1 Tiscali operational data
  • 5.6 Fastweb
    • 5.6.1 Fastweb operational data
• 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 – 2011 (e)
• Table 2 – Telecom revenue and investment statistics – 2010
• Table 3 – Telephone network statistics – 2011 (e)
• Table 4 – Internet user statistics – 2011 (e)
• Table 5 – Broadband statistics – 2011 (e)
• Table 6 – Mobile statistics – 2011 (e)
• Table 7 – National telecommunications authority
• Table 8 – Index of base prices, fixed and mobile services – 2007 - 2012
• Table 9 – Fixed and mobile market investment – 2004 - 2010
• Table 10 – Telco market share, fixed and mobile services – 2008 - 2010
• Table 11 – Fixed and mobile market revenue – 2006 - 2012
• Table 12 – Retail revenue, fixed and mobile market – 2008 - 2010
• Table 13 – Fixed termination rates by company – 2007 - 2010
• Table 14 – Telecom Italia wholesale access lines – 2007 - 2011
• Table 15 – LLU, shared access price – connection, monthly rental – 2006 - 2009
• Table 16 – Cumulative numbers ported – 2002 - 2009
• Table 17 – CPS lines – 2005 - 2010
• Table 18 – Fixed-network access by type – 2008 - 2010
• Table 19 – Fixed-line services revenue market share by operator – 2009 - 2010
• Table 20 – Fixed-line voice revenue – 2009 - 2012
• Table 21 – Telecom Italia fixed-line accesses by sector – 2006 - 2011
• Table 22 – Telecom Italia fixed network revenue by sector – 2006 - 2011
• Table 23 – Telecom Italia Group financial data – 2005 - 2011
• Table 24 – Telecom Italia domestic revenue – 2005 - 2011
• Table 25 – Wind subscribers by sector – 2006 - 2011
• Table 26 – Wind annualised fixed-line ARPU – 2006 - 2011
• Table 27 – Wind financial data – 2006 - 2011
• Table 28 – Tiscali subscribers (Italy) – 2007 - 2011
• Table 29 – Tiscali revenue by sector – 2006 - 2011
• Table 30 – Tiscali revenue breakdown by sector – 2007 - 2011
• Table 31 – Fastweb financial data (€) – 2005 - 2009
• Table 32 – Fastweb financial data (CHF) – 2008 - 2011
• Table 33 – Fastweb broadband subscribers – 2005 - 2011
• Table 34 – Fixed-line accesses (Telecom Italia and altnets) – 2008 - 2011
• Table 35 – Fixed-line access market share by operator – 2010 - 2011
• Table 36 – Altnet fixed-line accesses by type – 2010 - 2011

• Chart 1 – Fixed and mobile market investment – 2004 - 2010
• Chart 2 – Total fixed and mobile market revenue – 2006 - 2012
• Chart 3 – Retail revenue, fixed and mobile market – 2008 - 2010
• Chart 4 – Telecom Italia wholesale access lines – 2007 – 2011
• Chart 5 – Telecom Italia fixed-line accesses by sector – 2006 - 2011
• Chart 6 – Telecom Italia fixed network revenue by sector – 2006 - 2011
• Chart 7 – Telecom Italia Group financial data – 2006 - 2011
• Chart 8 – Telecom Italia domestic revenue – 2005 - 2011
• Chart 9 – Wind subscribers by sector – 2006 – 2011
• Chart 10 – Wind financial data – 2006 – 2011
• Chart 11 – Tiscali subscribers (Italy) – 2007 - 2011
• Chart 12 – Tiscali revenue by sector – 2006 - 2011

• Exhibit 1 – EU – The New Regulatory Framework (NRF)
• Exhibit 2 – Access and the local loop
• Exhibit 3 - Principal backbone providers – 2011