Finland - Telecoms Infrastructure, Operators, Regulations - Statistics and Analyses

Synopsis

Finland’s telecom market is among the more progressive in Europe, with considerable emphasis by operators to test-bed technologies, particularly in the mobile and broadband sectors. These efforts have been supported by the regulator which has provided additional spectrum for telecom services. Trial licenses were issued to network operators in early 2018, several tests were held later in the year using spectrum in the 3.5GHz band. The auction of spectrum in this band will enabled operators to launch commercial services in early 2019.

As a result of these efforts the country enjoys one of the highest broadband and mobile penetration rates in the region, with customers able to make use of the latest iterations of technologies including DOCSIS3.1, carrier aggregation with LTE-A, and GPON fibre infrastructure.

This report assesses key aspects of the Finnish telecom market, providing data on the fixed network services sector together with an overview of important regulatory issues including interconnection, local loop unbundling, number portability and carrier preselection. The major operators are profiled, while the telecoms infrastructure and fixed telephony services are also assessed.

Key developments:

Nokia launches key technologies for the Smart Tampere project;
Cinia Group participates in the Arctic Connect cable linking Europe with North America and Asia;
Fixed-voice subscriptions continue to fall;
Report update includes the regulator’s market data update to December 2017, telcos’ financial and operating data to Q2 2018, recent market developments.

Companies mentioned in this report:

Telia, Finnet Group, DNA, Elisa, TDC Finland, Tele2

1. Synopsis
2. Key statistics
3. Telecommunications market
- 3.1 Historical overview
- 3.2 Market analysis
4. Regulatory environment
- 4.1 Historic overview
- 4.2 Regulatory authorities
- 4.3 Privatisation of Telecom Finland
- 4.4 Interconnect
- 4.5 Access
- 4.6 Number Portability (NP)
- 4.7 Carrier preselection (CPS)
5. Fixed network operators
- 5.1 Telia
- 5.2 Finnet Group
- 5.3 DNA
- 5.4 Elisa Corporation
- 5.5 TDC Finland
- 5.6 Tele2
6. Telecommunications infrastructure
- 6.1 Overview of the national telecom network
- 6.2 Next Generation Networks
- 6.3 International infrastructure
- 6.4 Smart metering
- 6.5 Data centres
7. Related reports

Table 1 – Top Level Country Statistics and Telco Authorities - Finland – 2018 (e)
Table 2 – ARPU by sector – 2008 – 2015
Table 3 – Total telecom and broadcasting revenue – 2003 – 2015
Table 4 – Telecom service revenue by sector – 2009 – 2017
Table 5 – Market share telecom revenue by operator – 2012 – 2017
Table 6 – Telecom revenue: retail and wholesale – 2009 - 2017
Table 7 – Telecom investment by sector – 2009 - 2017
Table 8 – Telephony service price level change by sector – 2008 - 2015
Table 9 – Fixed-line termination rate – 2005 - 2020
Table 10 – Historic - Telia LLU accesses – 2006 - 2013
Table 11 – Average median LLU access pricing - copper – 2009 - 2018
Table 12 – Average median LLU access pricing - fibre pair – 2010 - 2018
Table 13 – Fixed-line operators’ market share of subscribers – 2005 - 2017
Table 14 – Fixed-line traffic in minutes – 2006 - 2018
Table 15 – Telia (Finland) revenue, EBITDA – 2012 - 2018
Table 16 – Telia (Finland) mobile and broadband revenue – 2006 - 2018
Table 17 – Telia (Finland) subscribers by sector – 2002 - 2018
Table 18 – DNA financial data – 2008 - 2018
Table 19 – DNA revenue by sector (consumer and business) – 2008 - 2018
Table 20 – DNA subscribers by sector – 2007 - 2018
Table 21 – Elisa fixed network subscribers by sector – 2004 - 2018
Table 22 – Elisa Group revenue by sector – 2004 – 2018
Table 23 – Elisa Group financial data – 2008 - 2018
Table 24 – Historic - TDC Finland financial data – 2007 - 2014
Table 25 – Fixed lines in service and teledensity – 2000 - 2018
Table 26 – VoIP connections – 2008 - 2018