Portugal - Key Statistics, Telecom Market and Regulatory Overviews

Synopsis

Portugal has a medium-sized telecom market with a strong mobile sector and a growing broadband customer base well served by both the cable and DSL platforms. The development of digital-TV services has progressed under cautious regulatory guidance, with a licence for digital-service transmission awarded to Portugal Telecom in mid-2008. The difficult economic conditions have seen operator’s domestic revenue fall in recent quarters, with Cogeco selling the flagging Cabovisão in early 2012 for a considerable loss. This report introduces the major elements of the Portuguese telecom market, presenting statistics on the fixed telephony sector as well as an analysis of the major players including Portugal Telecom and ZON Multimédia. Additional information is provided on the key regulatory issues, noting the status of interconnection, local loop unbundling, number portability and carrier preselection.

Key developments:

PT eliminates special rights granted to the government’s golden shares; AR Telecom exits residential market; regulator’s market data to Q4 2011; operator data to end-2011; market developments into 2012.

Companies covered include:

TMN, Optimus, Vodafone, ZON Multimedia.

1. Synopsis
2. Key statistics
3. Telecommunications market
- 3.1 Overview of Portugal’s telecom market
4. Regulatory environment
- 4.1 History
- 4.2 Revised NFR
- 4.3 Regulatory authority
  - 4.3.1 National Communications Authority
- 4.4 Telecom sector liberalisation in Portugal
  - 4.4.1 Privatisation of Telecom Portugal
  - 4.4.2 Interconnect
  - 4.4.3 Access
  - 4.4.4 Fibre access
  - 4.4.5 Carrier PreSelection (CPS)
  - 4.4.6 Number Portability (NP)
  - 4.4.7 Wholesale Line Rental (WLR)
5. Fixed network operators in Portugal
- 5.1 Overview of operators
- 5.2 Portugal Telecom
- 5.3 Oni
- 5.4 Sonaecom
  - 5.4.1 Novis
- 5.5 AR Telecom
  - 5.5.1 Jazztel (historic)
- 5.6 ZON Multimédia
6. Telecommunications infrastructure
- 6.1 National telecom network
  - 6.1.1 Next Generation Networks (NGNs)
- 6.2 International infrastructure
7. Related reports

Table 1 – Country statistics – 2011 (e)
Table 2 – Telecom revenue and investment statistics – 2012 (e)
Table 3 – Telephone network statistics – 2011
Table 4 – Internet user statistics – 2011
Table 5 – Broadband statistics – 2012 (e)
Table 6 – Mobile statistics – 2012 (e)
Table 7 – National telecommunications authority
Table 8 – Telecom market as proportion of GDP – 2006 - 2011
Table 9 – Telecom market investment – 2004 - 2012
Table 10 – Telecom market value – 2000 - 2012
Table 11 – Telecom market value by sector – 2007 - 2009
Table 12 – Unbundled loops – 2005 - 2012
Table 13 – Number and type of access lines: analogue and digital – 2005 - 2011
Table 14 – Portugal Telecom wholesale lines – 2008 - 2011
Table 15 – Fixed telephone customers, access type and shared access lines – 2004 - 2011
Table 16 – Portugal Telecom’s share of direct access customers – 2005 - 2011
Table 17 – Cumulative fixed-line numbers ported – 2003 - 2010
Table 18 – Fixed-line revenue, by type – 2007 - 2012
Table 19 – Share of fixed-line access installations by operator – 2008 - 2011
Table 20 – Portugal Telecom accesses and subscribers by sector – 2008 - 2011
Table 21 – Portugal Telecom domestic financial data – 2005 - 2011
Table 22 – Portugal Telecom Group financial data – 2010 - 2011
Table 23 – Portugal Telecom domestic financial data by segment – 2010 - 2011
Table 24 – Sonaecom fixed-line financial data by sector – 2006 - 2011
Table 25 – Sonaecom financial data – 2006 - 2011
Table 26 – Sonaecom fixed-line subscribers by sector – 2008 - 2011
Table 27 – ZON Multimédia subscribers by type – 2007 - 2011
Table 28 – ZON Multimédia financial data – 2007 - 2011
Table 29 – Fixed lines in service and teledensity – 1999 - 2013