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Portugal - Fixed Broadband Market - Statistics and Analyses

Synopsis

Portugal’s broadband penetration has grown steadily in recent years, largely the result of joint efforts between the regulator and the key market operators which have invested in significant infrastructure upgrades. These operators are also focussed on fibre-based services, resulting in a migration of subscribers from DSL infrastructure to fibre. Under the ownership of the Altice Group, Altice Portugal is focussed on FttP, aiming to cover 5.3 million premises by 2020, and providing national coverage.

The cable sector has also shifted towards fibre, with the principal cableco NOS investing in fibre rather than DOCSIS upgrades. In addition, Vodafone Portugal provides fibre to about two-thirds of premises. Much of the growth in the fibre segment has resulted from shared infrastructure deals, including that between Vodafone and NOS. the government has also supported two open-access wholesale networks being built by dstelecom and Fibroglobal.

This report profiles Portugal’s fixed and fixed-wireless broadband markets, providing key statistics on the retail and wholesale sectors as well as subscriber forecasts to 2023.

Key developments:

  • Altice Portugal ramps up fibre roll out, aiming for 5.3 million connected premises by 2020;
  • Vodafone developing on fibre-network sharing agreement with NOS, retails 1Gb/s devices for customers;
  • Fibre subscriber base grows 24% in 2018;
  • Report update includes the regulator’s market data to Q4 2018, telcos’ operating and financial data to Q1 2019, recent market developments.

Companies mentioned in this report:

PT Portugal (MEO), Sonaecom, Cabovisão, Vodafone Portugal, NOS (Zon Optimus).

Table of Contents

  • Introduction and statistical overview

    • Market analysis
    • Broadband statistics

  • Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) networks

    • NOS
    • Nowo (Cabovisão)

  • Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) networks

    • PT Portugal (MEO)
    • Sonaecom

  • Fibre-to-the-Premises (FttP)

  • Other fixed broadband services

    • Broadband over Powerline (BPL)
    • Wireless broadband
      • Wireless Local Loop (WLL)
      • Wi-Fi

  • Appendix – Historic data

  • Related reports


List of Tables

  • Table 1 – Historic - Internet users and penetration – 2000 – 2009
  • Table 2 – Fixed broadband subscribers by type – 2000 – 2008
  • Table 3 – Fixed broadband subscribers and penetration – 2000 – 2008
  • Table 4 – Share of broadband accesses by operator (old format) – 2010 – 2014
  • Table 5 – Historic - Broadband subscriber annual change year-on-year – 2002 – 2009
  • Table 6 – Fixed-line and mobile broadband traffic per month per customer – 2008 – 2017
  • Table 7 – Proportion of broadband subscribers by data rate (Mb/s) – 2011 – 2016

List of Charts

  • Chart 1 – Fixed-line multiplay revenue – 2015 – 2018
  • Chart 2 – Development of fixed broadband subscriber growth and penetration – 2009 – 2023
  • Chart 3 – Evolution in broadband subscribers by access type – 2009 – 2018
  • Chart 4 – Proportion of broadband subscribers by access type – 2007 – 2018
  • Chart 5 – Broadband subscriber annual change year-on-year – 2009 – 2018
  • Chart 6 – Evolution of fixed broadband penetration by platform – 2007 – 2018
  • Chart 7 – Share of broadband accesses by operator (new format) – 2011 – 2018
  • Chart 8 – Evolution of fixed-line and mobile broadband traffic – 2008 – 2018
  • Chart 9 – Cable DOCSIS3.0 connected premises – 2010 – 2017
  • Chart 10 – Growth in NOS cable broadband subscribers – 2004 – 2019
  • Chart 11 – Change in MEO broadband subscribers by platform – 2016 – 2019
  • Chart 12 – Growth in FttP/B connected premises – 2010 – 2017
  • Chart 13 – Growth in the number of FttX subscribers – 2008 – 2018
  • Chart 14 – Vodafone fixed-line broadband subscribers – 2012 – 2019

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Number of pages 35

Status Current

Last updated 24 Jul 2019
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Analyst: Henry Lancaster

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