Denmark Telecoms Market Report

Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses

Publication Date: January 2025

Report Pages: 246

Analyst: Henry Lancaster

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Summary
Table Of Contents

Denmark connected to Norway via a new cable system

Denmark has one of the highest broadband penetration rates globally, with a near universal availability of superfast connections. Extensive cable and DSL infrastructure has been supported by a progressive regulatory regime which has encouraged operator access to both copper and fibre networks. Fibre networks have a fast-growing footprint, while a number of community and metropolitan schemes have supplemented TDC’s own commitments to build out fibre nationally. A number of wholesale fibre schemes have also added to the wider availability of fibre broadband.

The reach of LTE infrastructure is comprehensive, while the MNOs by mid-2022 also provided near universal population coverage with 5G. Services based on 5G were initially launched using trial 3.5GHz licences. The multi-spectrum auction held in April 2021 has enabled them to improve the resilience and capacity of 5G. At the same time, all MNOs are engaged in closing down their 3G networks and refarming spectrum for LTE and 5G use.

This report introduces the key aspects of the Danish telecom market, providing data on the fixed network services sector as well as profiles of the major operators. It also analyses market statistics and assesses the key regulatory issues including interconnection, local loop unbundling, number portability and carrier preselection. In addition, the market reviews the fixed broadband and mobile markets, including a range of subscriber forecasts.

Key developments

Havsil cable connecting Denmark to Norway is completed;
Telenor Denmark planning to upgrade an additional 1,400 base stations for its 5G SA network by end-2022;
Denmark‘s MNOs closing down 3G services;
Nokia Networks given five-year managed services contract for TT-Netværket;
TDC expands NB-IoT across its LTE footprint;
AquaComms upgrades the Havfrue submarine cable;
Report update includes the regulator's market data update to December 2020, telcos' operating and financial data to Q2 2022, updated Telecom Maturity Index charts and analyses, recent market developments.

Companies mentioned in this report

TDC, Telia Denmark, Telenor, MIT Tele (DLG Tele), 3 Denmark, Lycamobile, Tele2, Cibicom, Net 1 Denmark

Key statistics
Regional Europe Market Comparison

Market characteristics
Market Leaders
Market Challengers
Market Emergents
TMI versus GDP
Mobile and mobile broadband penetration
Fixed versus mobile broadband penetration

Country overview
Telecommunications market

Market analysis

Regulatory environment

Historical overview
Regulatory authority
Fixed-line developments

Privatisation of Tele Danmark
Interconnect
Access
Number Portability (NP)
Carrier PreSelection (CPS)
European Electronic Communications Code

Mobile network developments

Spectrum
Roaming
Mobile Number Portability (MNP)
Mobile Termination Rate (MTR)
Network sharing

Mobile market

Mobile statistics
Mobile infrastructure

5G
4G (LTE)
3G
Other infrastructure developments
Mobile voice
Mobile data
Mobile broadband

Major mobile operators

TDC
Telenor Denmark
Telia Denmark
3 Denmark
Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs)

Mobile content and applications

Near Field Communications
M-commerce

Fixed-line broadband market

Market analysis
Broadband statistics
Government support
Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) networks
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) networks

Very High Data Rate DSL (VDSL)
Vectoring DSL

Fibre-to-the-Premises (FttP) networks
Other fixed broadband services

Fixed wireless
WiMAX
Satellite
Broadband Powerline (BPL)

Fixed network operators

Introduction
TDC
Telenor Denmark
Telia Denmark

Telecommunications infrastructure

Overview of the national telecom network
VoIP
Next Generation Access (NGA)
Alternative networks
International infrastructure

Submarine cable networks
Satellite networks

Smart infrastructure

Smart cities

Appendix – Historic data
Glossary of abbreviations
Related reports

List of Tables

Table 1 – Top Level Country Statistics and Telco Authorities – 2022 (e)
Table 2 – Development of telecom revenue by sector (DKK billion) – 2012 – 2020
Table 3 – Development of telecom earnings (EBIT) – 2012 – 2020
Table 4 – Development of telecom investment and proportion of revenue – 2012 – 2020
Table 5 – Change in fixed infrastructure investment by type (DKK million) – 2015 – 2020
Table 6 – Change in the number of annual fixed-line number portings – 2012 – 2020
Table 7 – Change in the number of annual mobile numbers ported – 2012 – 2020
Table 8 – Growth in the number of mobile subscribers and penetration – 2012 – 2027
Table 9 – Growth in the number of mobile voice and data subscribers – 2012 – 2020
Table 10 – Change in mobile services revenue by type (DKK billion) – 2012 – 2020
Table 11 – Fall in retail revenue per mobile subscriber – 2012 – 2020
Table 12 – Change in mobile sector investment – 2015 – 2020
Table 13 – Change in the market share of mobile subscribers by operator (main operators) – 2012 – 2020
Table 14 – Fall in the number of prepaid subscriptions and proportion of total – 2012 – 2020
Table 15 – Growth in the number of LTE subscriptions – 2015 – 2020
Table 16 – Growth in the number of M2M subscriptions by operator – 2012 – 2020
Table 17 – Development of mobile voice traffic – 2012 – 2020
Table 18 – Fall in SMS traffic – 2012 – 2020
Table 19 – Growth in MMS traffic – 2012 – 2020
Table 20 – Growth in mobile data traffic – 2012 – 2020
Table 21 – Change in the number of dedicated mobile data subscriptions – 2012 – 2020
Table 22 – Growth in the number of active mobile broadband subscribers and penetration – 2012 – 2027
Table 23 – Growth in the number of TDC’s mobile broadband subscribers – 2012 – 2022
Table 24 – Change in the number of TDC’s domestic mobile subscribers (retail, wholesale) (thousand) – 2012 – 2022
Table 25 – Growth in TDC’s mobile voice ARPU (consumer) – 2012 – 2022
Table 26 – Change in the number of Telenor Denmark’s mobile subscribers, proportion prepaid – 2012 – 2022
Table 27 – Development of Telenor Denmark’s mobile ARPU by type (NOK/Q4) – 2012 – 2022
Table 28 – Development of Telenor Denmark’s mobile revenue (NOK million) – 2012 – 2022
Table 29 – Change in the number of Telia Denmark’s mobile subscribers (thousand) – 2012 – 2022
Table 30 – Change in Telia Denmark’s blended mobile ARPU – 2012 – 2022
Table 31 – Development of Telia Denmark’s mobile service revenue – 2012 – 2022
Table 32 – Change in the number of 3 Denmark’s registered subscribers – 2012 – 2021
Table 33 – Change in the number of 3 Denmark’s active subscribers – 2014 – 2021
Table 34 – Development of 3 Denmark’s mobile financial data (DKK million) – 2012 – 2021
Table 35 – Change in 3 Denmark’s annualised monthly ARPU – 2012 – 2021
Table 36 – Change in the number of fixed and mobile internet subscribers (million) – 2012 – 2020
Table 37 – Change in the total number of broadband subscribers and penetration – 2012 – 2020
Table 38 – Change in fixed broadband penetration by technology – 2012 – 2021
Table 39 – Development of fixed broadband subscribers by technology – 2012 – 2020
Table 40 – Growth in the number of fixed broadband subscribers and penetration – 2012 – 2027
Table 41 – Broadband subscribers by lower access speeds – 2012 – 2020
Table 42 – Growth in the number of broadband subscribers by superfast (>100Mb/s) access speed – 2017 – 2020
Table 43 – Development of fixed-line broadband revenue by type (DKK million) – 2012 – 2020
Table 44 – Growth in fixed-line broadband traffic – 2017 – 2020
Table 45 – Change in the number of TDC’s broadband subscribers – 2012 – 2022
Table 46 – Change in the number of Telia Denmark’s broadband subscribers and ARPU – 2012 – 2022
Table 47 – Decline in the number of Telenor Denmark’s broadband subscribers – 2012 – 2022
Table 48 – Growth in the number of VDSL lines – 2013 – 2020
Table 49 – Growth in the number of fibre broadband subscribers by type – 2012 – 2020
Table 50 – Change in the number of wireless broadband subscribers by type – 2012 – 2018
Table 51 – Satellite broadband subscribers – 2012 – 2020
Table 52 – Decline in the number of fixed subscriber lines by major operator – 2012 – 2020
Table 53 – Fixed subscriber lines by minor operator – 2012 – 2020
Table 54 – Decline in the number of fixed network lines by type – 2012 – 2020
Table 55 – Development of TDC Group’s financial data (DKK billion) – 2012 – 2022
Table 56 – Development of TDC’s consumer and business revenue (DKK billion) – 2012 – 2019
Table 57 – TDC consumer revenue by sector (DKK million) – 2012 – 2019
Table 58 – TDC business revenue by sector (DKK million) – 2012 – 2019
Table 59 – Development of TDC’s consumer RGUs by sector (million) – 2012 – 2022
Table 60 – Decline in Telenor Denmark’s fixed-line revenue – 2012 – 2022
Table 61 – Development of Telenor Denmark’s EBITDA, op. profit (NOK million) – 2012 – 2022
Table 62 – Change in the number of Telenor Denmark’s fixed-line subscribers – 2012 – 2022
Table 63 – Change in the number of Telia Denmark’s fixed-line subscribers by sector – 2012 – 2022
Table 64 – Development of Telia Denmark’s revenue by sector (SEK million) – 2012 – 2022
Table 65 – Decline in the number of fixed lines in service and teledensity – 2012 – 2027
Table 66 – Decline in fixed-telephony voice traffic (billion minutes) – 2012 – 2020
Table 67 – Development of retail and wholesale fixed-telephony revenue (DKK million) – 2013 – 2020
Table 68 – Average revenue per fixed line – 2012 – 2020
Table 69 – Development of VoIP subscribers and traffic – 2012 – 2020
Table 70 – Change in the number of TDC’s VoIP subscribers – 2012 – 2020
Table 71 – Change in the number of Telia Denmark’s VoIP subscribers – 2012 – 2022
Table 72 – Change in the number of NGA connections by type – 2013 – 2020
Table 73 – Change in international internet bandwidth – 2012 – 2017
Table 74 – Historic - Telecom sector investment – 2002 – 2011
Table 75 – Historic - Telecom investment and proportion of revenue – 2001 – 2011
Table 76 – Historic - Carrier and call-by-call PreSelection registrations – 2005 – 2013
Table 77 – Historic - Mobile voice traffic – 2005 – 2011
Table 78 – Historic - TDC mobile services revenue by segment (DKK million) – 2007 – 2019
Table 79 – Historic - Mobile subscribers and penetration – 1999 – 2011
Table 80 – Historic - Prepaid subscriptions and percentage of subscribers – 1999 – 2011
Table 81 – Historic - Mobile retail services revenue – 2001 – 2011
Table 82 – Historic - Mobile traffic in minutes – 2005 – 2011
Table 83 – Historic - Annual mobile numbers ported – 2003 – 2011
Table 84 – Historic - Telenor Denmark mobile subscribers, proportion prepaid – 2004 – 2011
Table 85 – Historic - Telenor Denmark ARPU (NOK/Q4) – 2004 – 2011
Table 86 – Historic - Telenor Denmark’s mobile revenue (NOK million) – 2005 – 2011
Table 87 – Historic - 3 Denmark financial data (SEK million) – 2007 – 2011
Table 88 – Historic - 3 Denmark annualised monthly ARPU and data proportion – 2007 – 2011
Table 89 – Historic - SMS traffic – 2003 – 2011
Table 90 – Historic - SMS sent per subscriber – 2014 – 2017
Table 91 – Historic - Total MMS sent – 2003 – 2011
Table 92 – Historic - MMS sent per subscriber – 2014 – 2017
Table 93 – Historic - Internet users and penetration rate – 1996 – 2015
Table 94 – Historic - Internet subscribers and penetration rate – 2004 – 2011
Table 95 – Historic - Dial-up internet subscribers – 2007 – 2018
Table 96 – Historic - Total fixed-line broadband subscribers by sector – 2001 – 2011
Table 97 – Historic - Fixed-line broadband subscribers and penetration – 2001 – 2011
Table 98 – Historic - Mobile, fixed telephony and broadband revenue (DKK million) – 2001 – 2012
Table 99 – Historic - Broadband coverage by data rate – 2011 – 2015
Table 100 – Historic - Fibre broadband subscribers by type – 2005 – 2011
Table 101 – Historic - Fixed network and ISDN lines (thousand) – 2003 – 2011
Table 102 – Historic - Telenor Denmark fixed-line subscribers – 2005 – 2011
Table 103 – Historic - Telia Denmark fixed-line subscribers by sector – 2005 – 2011
Table 104 – Historic - Fixed-telephony domestic voice traffic (billion minutes) – 2005 – 2011
Table 105 – Historic - Fixed lines in service and teledensity – 1999 – 2011
Table 106 – Historic - Development of VoIP subscribers and traffic – 2005 – 2011
Table 107 – Historic - Telenor VoIP subscribers – 2005 – 2014
Table 108 – Historic - International internet bandwidth – 1999 – 2011
Table 109 – Historic - Development of telecom earnings (EBIT) – 2007 – 2011
Table 110 – Historic - Change in the number of annual fixed-line number portings – 2006 – 2011
Table 111 – Historic - Fall in average revenue per mobile subscriber – 2007 – 2011
Table 112 – Historic - Growth in the number of M2M subscriptions by operator – 2008 – 2011
Table 113 – Historic - Change in the number of dedicated mobile data subscriptions – 2008 – 2011
Table 114 – Historic - Growth in the number of TDC’s mobile broadband subscribers – 2008 – 2011
Table 115 – Historic - Change in the number of TDC’s domestic mobile subscribers (retail, wholesale) (thousand) – 2007 – 2011
Table 116 – Historic - Change in the number of Telia Denmark’s mobile subscribers (thousand) – 2005 – 2011
Table 117 – Historic - Change in Telia Denmark’s blended mobile ARPU – 2007 – 2011
Table 118 – Historic - Development of Telia Denmark’s mobile service revenue – 2006 – 2011
Table 119 – Historic - Change in the number of 3 Denmark’s registered subscribers – 2007 – 2011
Table 120 – Historic - Change in fixed broadband penetration by technology – 2007 – 2011
Table 121 – Historic - Change in the number of Telia Denmark’s broadband subscribers and ARPU – 2007 – 2011
Table 122 – Historic - Development of TDC Group’s financial data (DKK billion) – 2007 – 2011
Table 123 – Historic - Decline in Telenor Denmark’s fixed-line revenue – 2006 – 2011
Table 124 – Historic - Development of Telenor Denmark’s EBITDA, op. profit (NOK million) – 2005 – 2011
Table 125 – Historic - Development of Telia Denmark’s revenue by sector (SEK million) – 2006 – 2011
Table 126 – Historic - Change in the number of TDC’s VoIP subscribers – 2008 – 2011

List of Charts

Chart 1 – Europe Telecoms Maturity Index – Market Leaders
Chart 2 – Europe Telecoms Maturity Index – Market Challengers
Chart 3 – Europe Telecoms Maturity Index – Market Emergents
Chart 4 – Europe - Telecoms Maturity Index vs GDP per capita
Chart 5 – Europe – Mobile subscriber penetration vs mobile broadband penetration
Chart 6 – Scandinavia/Baltics fixed and mobile broadband penetration
Chart 7 – Northern Europe fixed and mobile broadband penetration
Chart 8 – Eastern Europe fixed and mobile broadband penetration
Chart 9 – Southern Europe fixed and mobile broadband penetration
Chart 10 – Development of telecom revenue by sector – 2012 – 2020
Chart 11 – Development of telecom investment and proportion of revenue – 2012 – 2020
Chart 12 – Change in fixed infrastructure investment by type – 2015 – 2020
Chart 13 – Change in the number of annual fixed-line number portings – 2012 – 2020
Chart 14 – Change in the number of annual mobile numbers ported – 2012 – 2020
Chart 15 – Growth in the number of mobile subscribers and penetration – 2012 – 2027
Chart 16 – Growth in the number of mobile voice and data subscribers – 2012 – 2020
Chart 17 – Change in mobile services revenue by type – 2012 – 2020
Chart 18 – Fall in retail revenue per mobile subscriber – 2012 – 2020
Chart 19 – Change in mobile sector investment – 2015 – 2020
Chart 20 – Change in the market share of mobile subscribers by operator (main operators) – 2012 – 2020
Chart 21 – Fall in the number of prepaid subscriptions and proportion of total – 2012 – 2020
Chart 22 – Growth in the number of LTE subscriptions – 2015 – 2020
Chart 23 – Growth in the number of M2M subscriptions by operator – 2012 – 2020
Chart 24 – Development of mobile voice traffic – 2012 – 2020
Chart 25 – Fall in SMS traffic – 2012 – 2020
Chart 26 – Growth in MMS traffic – 2012 – 2020
Chart 27 – Growth in mobile data traffic – 2012 – 2020
Chart 28 – Change in the number of dedicated mobile data subscriptions – 2012 – 2020
Chart 29 – Growth in the number of active mobile broadband subscribers and penetration – 2012 – 2027
Chart 30 – Growth in the number of TDC’s mobile broadband subscribers – 2012 – 2022
Chart 31 – Change in the number of TDC’s domestic subscribers (retail, wholesale) – 2012 – 2022
Chart 32 – Change in the number of Telenor Denmark’s mobile subscribers, proportion prepaid – 2012 – 2022
Chart 33 – Development of Telenor Denmark’s mobile ARPU by type – 2012 – 2022
Chart 34 – Development of Telenor Denmark’s mobile revenue – 2012 – 2022
Chart 35 – Change in the number of Telia Denmark’s mobile subscribers – 2012 – 2022
Chart 36 – Change in Telia Denmark’s blended mobile ARPU – 2012 – 2022
Chart 37 – Development of Telia Denmark’s mobile service revenue – 2012 – 2022
Chart 38 – Change in the number of 3 Denmark’s registered subscribers – 2012 – 2021
Chart 39 – Change in the number of 3 Denmark’s active subscribers – 2014 – 2021
Chart 40 – Development of 3 Denmark’s mobile financial data – 2012 – 2021
Chart 41 – Change in 3 Denmark’s annualised monthly ARPU – 2012 – 2021
Chart 42 – Change in the number of fixed and mobile internet subscribers – 2012 – 2020
Chart 43 – Change in the total number of broadband subscribers and penetration – 2012 – 2020
Chart 44 – Change in fixed broadband penetration by technology – 2012 – 2021
Chart 45 – Development of fixed broadband subscribers by technology – 2012 – 2020
Chart 46 – Growth in the number of fixed broadband subscribers and penetration – 2012 – 2027
Chart 47 – Growth in the number of broadband subscribers by superfast (>100Mb/s) access speed – 2017 – 2020
Chart 48 – Development of fixed-line broadband revenue by type – 2012 – 2020
Chart 49 – Change in the number of TDC’s broadband subscribers – 2012 – 2022
Chart 50 – Change in the number of Telia Denmark’s broadband subscribers and ARPU – 2012 – 2022
Chart 51 – Decline in the number of Telenor Denmark’s broadband subscribers – 2012 – 2022
Chart 52 – Growth in the number of VDSL lines – 2013 – 2020
Chart 53 – Growth in the number of fibre broadband subscribers by type – 2012 – 2020
Chart 54 – Decline in the number of fixed subscriber lines by major operator – 2012 – 2020
Chart 55 – Decline in the number of fixed subscriber lines by minor operator – 2012 – 2020
Chart 56 – Decline in the number of fixed network lines by type – 2012 – 2020
Chart 57 – Development of TDC Group’s financial data – 2012 – 2022
Chart 58 – Development of TDC’s consumer and business revenue – 2012 – 2019
Chart 59 – Development of TDC’s consumer RGUs by sector – 2012 – 2021
Chart 60 – Decline in Telenor Denmark’s fixed-line revenue – 2012 – 2022
Chart 61 – Change in the number of Telenor Denmark’s fixed-line subscribers – 2012 – 2022
Chart 62 – Change in the number of Telia Denmark’s fixed-line subscribers by sector – 2012 – 2022
Chart 63 – Development of Telia Denmark’s revenue by sector – 2012 – 2022
Chart 64 – Decline in the number of fixed lines in service and teledensity – 2012 – 2027
Chart 65 – Decline in fixed-telephony voice traffic – 2012 – 2020
Chart 66 – Development of retail and wholesale fixed-telephony revenue – 2013 – 2020
Chart 67 – Average revenue per fixed line – 2012 – 2020
Chart 68 – Development of VoIP subscribers and traffic – 2012 – 2020
Chart 69 – Change in the number of NGA connections by type – 2013 – 2020

List of Exhibits

Exhibit 1 – Map of Telecom Maturity Index global ranking among countries in Europe
Exhibit 2 – Generalised Market Characteristics by Market Segment
Exhibit 3 – Europe – Market Leaders and market developments
Exhibit 4 – Europe – Market Challengers and market developments
Exhibit 5 – Europe – Market Emergents and market developments
Exhibit 6 – Access and the local loop
Exhibit 7 – Licensing results – 2001
Exhibit 8 – Licence awards 2.5GHz – 2010
Exhibit 9 – Licence awards 800MHz – 2012
Exhibit 10 – Licence awards 1800MHz – 2016
Exhibit 11 – Licence awards – April 2021
Exhibit 12 – TDC’s spectrum concessions in Denmark
Exhibit 13 – 3 Denmark spectrum concessions

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Denmark Telecoms Market Report

Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses

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Denmark connected to Norway via a new cable system

Key developments

Companies mentioned in this report

Key statistics

Regional Europe Market Comparison

Country overview

Telecommunications market

Regulatory environment

Mobile market

Fixed-line broadband market

Fixed network operators

Telecommunications infrastructure

Smart infrastructure

Appendix – Historic data

Glossary of abbreviations

Related reports

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