Norway - Mobile Market - Overview, Statistics & Forecasts

Synopsis

Norway’s mobile market is a duopoly between the network operators Telenor Mobile and TeliaSonera’s NetCom, supplemented by a growing number of MVNOs. Mobile penetration reached 110% in early 2009, and although overall subscriber growth has fallen to about 1.5% the 3G sector has proved resilient, with strong growth resulting from new subscribers as well as from the rapid migration from GSM networks. Both Telenor and NetCom operate GSM and 3G services, while new providers include the 3G licensee Mobile Norway which expected to launch commercial services later in 2009. A potential competitor, Nordisk Mobiltelefon, which operated a CDMA 450 network and concentrated on mobile broadband solutions, went bankrupt in early 2009.

This report profiles Norway’s mobile market in 2010, providing statistics on the main operators, a review of the key regulatory issues, and a snapshot of the consumer market for mobile data services such as SMS, mobile TV and mobile broadband.

1. Synopsis
2. Mobile communications
- 2.1 Overview of Norway’s mobile market
  - 2.1.1 Mobile statistics
  - 2.1.2 Operator market shares
3. Regulatory issues
- 3.1 Spectrum regulations and spectrum auctions
  - 3.1.1 GSM
  - 3.1.2 3G
  - 3.1.3 2.3GHz
  - 3.1.4 2.5 - 2.6GHz
  - 3.1.5 1.8GHz.
  - 3.1.6 10GHz
  - 3.1.7 23GHz
  - 3.1.8 Other frequencies
- 3.2 Roaming
- 3.3 Number portability
- 3.4 Mobile termination rates (MTRs)
4. Mobile technologies
- 4.1 Analogue
- 4.2 Digital
  - 4.2.1 Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)
- 4.3 Third Generation (3G) mobile
5. Major mobile operators
- 5.1 Telenor Mobile
  - 5.1.1 Network contracts
- 5.2 NetCom
- 5.3 Mobile Norway
- 5.4 Teletopia
- 5.5 Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs)
6. Mobile voice services
- 6.1 Prepaid
7. Mobile messaging
- 7.1 Short Message Service (SMS)
- 7.2 Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)
8. Mobile data services
- 8.1 Overview
- 8.2 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
- 8.3 High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA)
- 8.4 Enhanced data for GSM evolution (EDGE)
- 8.5 Long-term evolution (LTE)
- 8.6 Mobile TV
- 8.7 TETRA (TErrestrial Trunked RAdio)
9. Mobile broadband (access)
10. Mobile content and applications
- 10.1 Location-based services
- 10.2 M-commerce
11. Forecasts
- 11.1 Forecasts – mobile ARPU - 2009 - 2010; 2015
- 11.2 Forecasts – UMTS subscribers - 2009 - 2010; 2015
- 11.3 Notes on scenario forecasts
12. Related reports

Table 1 – Mobile market turnover by sector – 2006 - 2008
Table 2 – Mobile market turnover by sector – H1 2009
Table 3 – Mobile revenue – 2002 - 2009
Table 4 – Mobile revenue per subscriber and per minute – 2001 - 2009
Table 5 – Mobile operators, subscribers and annual change – September 2009
Table 6 – Mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 1995; 1997; 1999 - 2010
Table 7 – Mobile traffic – 2004 - 2009
Table 8 – Subscriber, traffic, SMS and turnover market shares by provider – H1 2009
Table 9 – European roaming charges – 2007 - 2011
Table 10 – Mobile number portings – 2002 - 2007
Table 11 – Average mobile number portings – 2005 - 2009
Table 12 – Nordisk Mobiltelefon financial data – 2006 - 2008
Table 13 – Nordisk Mobiltelefon subscribers (Norway) – 2006 - 2008
Table 14 – Telenor Mobil – subscribers, prepaid, SMS and market share – 2000 - 2009
Table 15 – Telenor Mobil financial data – 2005 - 2009
Table 16 – Telenor Mobil ARPU: blended, contract and prepaid – 2004 - 2009
Table 17 – NetCom subscribers and ARPU: blended, contract and prepaid – 2002 - 2009
Table 18 – NetCom revenue – 2004 - 2009
Table 19 – Mobile Norway subscribers by sector – 2007 - 2009
Table 20 – Mobile Norway financial data by sector – 2007 - 2009
Table 21 – Prepaid subscribers as share of total – 1999; 2005 - 2008
Table 22 – Telenor Mobile (Norway) contract and prepaid subscribers – 2001 - 2009
Table 23 – Annual SMS sent – 1999 - 2009
Table 24 – MMS messages sent and annual change – 2004 - 2009
Table 25 – Mobile data traffic – 2008 - 2009
Table 26 – Operator share of mobile broadband subscribers – 2007 - 2008
Table 27 – Mobile broadband subscribers – 2005 - 2010
Table 28 – Mobile broadband revenue – 2006 - 2010
Table 29 – Mobile broadband traffic – 2006 - 2008
Table 30 – Forecast mobile ARPU - 2009 - 2010; 2015
Table 31 – Forecast UMTS subscriber growth – 2009 - 2010; 2015