Hungary - Fixed Broadband Market - Statistics and Analyses

Last updated: 18 Oct 2019 Update History

Report Status: Archived

Report Pages: 50

Analyst: Henry Lancaster

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Synopsis

Hungary’s broadband market has benefited from intense infrastructure-based competition, with the result that broadband penetration is the highest in Eastern Europe. There is an extensive cable network competing against DSL services and a vibrant and rapidly expanding fibre sector. By late 2019 the incumbent telco delivered a gigabit broadband service to about a third of all premises in the country and was in the process of replacing all of its copper infrastructure with fibre nationally. In July 2019 Vodafone Group completed its acquisition of Liberty Global’s UPC Hungary unit, a deal which is expected to result in further investment as Vodafone Hungary seeks to improve its position in the market for bundled services.

The regulator has introduced a number of measures aimed at promoting market competition, which is pushing the drive for higher speed platforms and encouraging operators to invest in technology upgrades with a focus on fibre deployments. While FttP and the expansion of services based on the DOCSIS3.1 standard will help drive the take-up of fixed broadband services, from about 2023 it is anticipated that growth will slow as customers adopt voice and data services on 5G infrastructure, particularly in rural areas.

Amendments to the Utility Tax have also encouraged operators to accelerate the deployment of superfast networks, which accounted for about 72% of all fixed broadband connections by mid-2019.

This report provides an overview of Hungary’s broadband market, including market analyses, statistics and subscriber forecasts.

Key developments:

Maygar Telekom’s gigabit service extended to a third of premises;
Vodafone Group acquires UPC Hungary from Liberty Global;
Telcos strike deal with the government to extend broadband to underserved areas;
Utility Tax amendments favouring superfast broadband network roll-outs;
RG Networks launches satellite broadband via Eutelsat;
FttX subscriber base reaches 800,000;
Government expands e-payment systems;
Maygar Telecom steps up e-health initiatives;
Report update includes the regulator's market data to June 2019, telcos' financial and operating data to Q2 2019, recent market developments.

Companies mentioned in this report:

UPC Hungary, Vodafone Hungary, Maygar Telecom, Hungarotel, GTS Datanet, B2B Europe.

Introduction and statistical overview

Market analysis
Broadband statistics

Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) Networks
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) Networks
Fibre-To-The-Premises (FTTP)
Other fixed broadband services

Wi-Fi
Satellite broadband

Digital economy

e-Government

Infrastructure

e-health
e-commerce
e-education

Appendix – Historic data
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List of Tables

Table 1 – Change in fixed broadband revenue by platform – 2009 – 2019
Table 2 – Internet access revenue by wireless and wired platform – 2009 – 2019
Table 3 – Growth in fixed-line broadband traffic – 2015 – 2019
Table 4 – Growth in the number of fixed broadband subscribers and penetration – 2009 – 2024
Table 5 – Fixed broadband market share of subscribers by major operator – 2011 – 2019
Table 6 – Fixed broadband market share of subscribers by minor operator – 2011 – 2019
Table 7 – Fixed broadband lines above 30Mb/s, by platform – 2011 – 2019
Table 8 – Proportion of household internet connections by type – 2006 – 2018
Table 9 – Change in the proportion of fixed broadband subscriptions by data rate – 2015 – 2019
Table 10 – Increase in the number of cable broadband subscribers – 2009 – 2019
Table 11 – Growth in the number of UPC Hungary’s cable broadband subscriber base – 2003 – 2019
Table 12 – Increase in the number of Magyar Telekom’s cable broadband subscribers – 2004 – 2019
Table 13 – Decline in the number of DSL broadband subscribers – 2009 – 2019
Table 14 – Decline in the number of Magyar Telekom’ retail DSL subscribers – 2004 – 2019
Table 15 – Growth in the number of FttX broadband subscribers – 2010 – 2019
Table 16 – Growth in the number of Magyar Telekom’s FttX subscribers – 2010 – 2019
Table 17 – Growth in the number of wireless broadband subscribers – 2009 – 2019
Table 18 – Historic - Fixed broadband subscribers and penetration rate – 2000 – 2009
Table 19 – historic - Internet access revenue by platform – 2002 – 2009
Table 20 – Historic - Dial-up internet traffic – 2002 – 2015
Table 21 – Historic - Cable broadband subscribers – 2009 – 2009
Table 22 – Historic - DSL broadband subscribers – 2003 – 2009
Table 23 – Historic - Wireless broadband subscribers – 2003 – 2009
Table 24 – Historic - Use of e-government services (proportion of internet users) – 2010 – 2017

List of Charts

Chart 1 – Change in fixed broadband revenue by platform – 2009 – 2019
Chart 2 – Internet access revenue by wireless and wired platform – 2009 – 2019
Chart 3 – Growth in fixed-line broadband traffic – 2015 – 2019
Chart 4 – Growth in the number of fixed broadband subscribers and penetration – 2009 – 2024
Chart 5 – Fixed broadband lines above 30Mb/s, by platform – 2011 – 2019
Chart 6 – Change in the proportion of fixed broadband subscriptions by data rate – 2015 – 2019
Chart 7 – Increase in the number of cable broadband subscribers – 2009 – 2019
Chart 8 – Growth in the number of UPC Hungary’s cable broadband subscriber base – 2003 – 2019
Chart 9 – Increase in the number of Magyar Telekom’s cable broadband subscribers – 2004 – 2019
Chart 10 – Decline in the number of DSL broadband subscribers – 2009 – 2019
Chart 11 – Decline in the number of Magyar Telekom’ retail DSL subscribers – 2004 – 2019
Chart 12 – Growth in the number of FttX broadband subscribers – 2010 – 2019
Chart 13 – Growth in the number of Magyar Telekom’s FttX subscribers – 2010 – 2019
Chart 14 – Growth in the number of wireless broadband subscribers – 2009 – 2019

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Hungary - Fixed Broadband Market - Statistics and Analyses

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Synopsis

Key developments:

Companies mentioned in this report:

Introduction and statistical overview

Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) Networks

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) Networks

Fibre-To-The-Premises (FTTP)

Other fixed broadband services

Digital economy

Appendix – Historic data

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