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. This report introduces the major elements of the Portuguese telecom market in 2011, 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; regulator market data for 2010 and data updates to Q2 1022; operator data to June 2011.

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 – 2011 (e)
Table 3 – Telephone network statistics – 2011 (Jun)
Table 4 – Internet user statistics – June 2011
Table 5 – Broadband statistics – 2011 (Jun)
Table 6 – Mobile statistics – 2011 (Jun)
Table 7 – National telecommunications authority
Table 8 – Telecom market as proportion of GDP – 2005 - 2010
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 - 2010
Table 14 – LLU, shared access price – connection and monthly rental – 2006 - 2009
Table 15 – Portugal Telecom wholesale lines – 2008 - 2011
Table 16 – Fixed telephone customers, access type and shared access lines – 2004 - 2011
Table 17 – Portugal Telecom’s share of direct access customers – 2005 - 2011
Table 18 – Cumulative fixed-line numbers ported – 2003 - 2010
Table 19 – Fixed-line revenue, by type – 2007 - 2012
Table 20 – Share of fixed-line access installations by operator – 2008 - 2011
Table 21 – Portugal Telecom accesses and subscribers by sector – 2007 - 2011
Table 22 – Portugal Telecom domestic financial data – 2005 - 2011
Table 23 – Sonaecom fixed-line financial data by sector – 2006 - 2011
Table 24 – Sonaecom financial data – 2006 - 2010
Table 25 – Sonaecom fixed-line subscribers by sector – 2008 - 2011
Table 26 – ZON Multimédia subscribers by type – 2007 - 2011
Table 27 – ZON Multimédia financial data – 2007 - 2011
Table 28 – Fixed lines in service and teledensity – 1999 - 2012