Spain - Key Statistics, Telecom Market & Regulatory Overviews

Synopsis

Spain’s telecom market was worth €42.8 billion in 2008, a 3% fall year-on-year. Mobile penetration is high and growing steadily, particularly in the 3G sector, while broadband take-up is backed by considerable investment in infrastructure in a bid to address the relatively slow data speeds available. Cable operators have launched 100Mb/s services, while Telefónica in October launched a 30Mb/s service based on a hybrid fibre/ADSL2+ network. These upgrades are required to stimulate the market for triple play, Video-on-Demand and other IP-delivered offers. The regulator has fostered competition by providing access to the incumbent’s DSL networks through LLU, as well as to its fibre networks through regulating access to ducts and infrastructure. This report introduces the key aspects of the Spanish telecom market in 2009, providing statistics on the fixed network services sector, and profiling of the main players and their strategies to meet an increasingly competitive environment. The report also assesses the main regulatory issues, noting the status of interconnection, local loop unbundling, number portability and carrier preselection.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
  
• 2. Key statistics
  
• 3. Telecommunications market
  
  • 3.1 Overview of Spain’s telecom market
    
  • 3.2 Avanza Plan
    
• 4. Regulatory environment
  
  • 4.1 History
    
  • 4.2 Regulatory authority
    
    • 4.2.1 Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT)
      
  • 4.3 Telecom sector liberalisation in Spain
    
    • 4.3.1 Privatisation of Telefónica
      
    • 4.3.2 Interconnect
      
    • 4.3.3 Access
      
    • 4.3.4 Number portability
      
    • 4.3.5 Carrier PreSelection (CPS)
      
    • 4.3.6 Wholesale Line Rental (WLR)
      
• 5. Fixed network operators in Spain
  
  • 5.1 Overview of operators
    
  • 5.2 Telefónica
    
  • 5.3 The Auna Group (historic)
    
  • 5.4 Orange
    
  • 5.5 Vodafone España
    
  • 5.6 Jazztel
    
  • 5.7 ONO
    
  • 5.8 Comunitel (historic)
    
  • 5.9 BT España
    
• 6. Telecommunications infrastructure
  
  • 6.1 National telecom network
    
  • 6.2 Next Generation Networks (NGN)
    
  • 6.3 International infrastructure
    
    • 6.3.1 Satellite networks
      
    • 6.3.2 Submarine cable
      
• 7. Related reports
  

• Table 1 – Country statistics – 2008
• Table 2 – Telecom revenue and investment statistics – 2008
• Table 3 – Telephone network statistics – March 2009
• Table 4 – Internet user statistics – March 2009
• Table 5 – Broadband statistics – March 2009
• Table 6 – Mobile statistics – March 2009
• Table 7 – National telecommunications authority
• Table 8 – Telecom revenue, retail and wholesale – 2005 - 2008
• Table 9 – Telecom retail revenue by sector – 2005 - 2008
• Table 10 – Telecom retail revenue annual change, by sector – 2002 - 2008
• Table 11 – Telecom revenue by operator, wholesale plus retail – 2004 - 2007
• Table 12 – Telecom investment by sector – 2003 - 2006
• Table 13 – Telecom investment and annual change – 2000 - 2007
• Table 14 – Proportion of fixed-line and mobile traffic (historic) – 2000 - 2008
• Table 15 – Interconnection traffic share by operator – 2005 - 2008
• Table 16 – Wholesale interconnection revenue – 2007 - 2008
• Table 17 – Unbundled loops and access lines – 2005 - 2009
• Table 18 – LLU, shared access price - connection and monthly rental – 2005 - 2008
• Table 19 – Wholesale access lines by type – 2007 - 2009
• Table 20 – Subscribers by type of access – 2006 - 2007
• Table 21 – Subscribers by type of access – 2006 - 2008
• Table 22 – Fixed lines ported – 2002 - 2008
• Table 23 – Carrier PreSelection lines – 2005 - 2008
• Table 24 – Fixed-line market share of revenue by operators – 2005 - 2008
• Table 25 – Fixed-line subscribers and market share by operators – 2008
• Table 26 – Fixed-line market revenue by traffic, line rental – 2002 - 2008
• Table 27 – Fixed-line voice ARPU – 2005 - 2007
• Table 28 – Fixed-line price index – 2004 - 2008
• Table 29 – Telefónica Group financial data – 2006 - 2009
• Table 30 – Telefónica de España financial data – 2006 - 2009
• Table 31 – Telefónica de España financial revenue by sector – 2005 - 2009
• Table 32 – Telefónica de España subscribers by service – 2005 - 2009
• Table 33 – Orange subscribers – 2005 - 2009
• Table 34 – Orange mobile financial data – 2007 - 2009
• Table 35 – Vodafone fixed-line data – 2007 - 2009
• Table 36 – Jazztel financial data – 2006 - 2009
• Table 37 – Jazztel revenue by sector – 2007 - 2009
• Table 38 – Jazztel subscribers by sector and annual change – 2006 - 2009
• Table 39 – ONO financial data by sector – 2006 - 2009
• Table 40 – ONO subscribers by sector– 2006 - 2009
• Table 41 – Fixed lines in service and penetration – 1999 - 2009

• Exhibit 1 – EU – The New Regulatory Framework (NRF)
• Exhibit 2 – Access and the local loop