Portugal - Mobile Infrastructure, Broadband, Operators - Statistics and Analyses

Synopsis

The Portuguese mobile market is dominated by the incumbent Portugal Telecom, owned by Altice Group and operating as Meo, followed by Vodafone and NOS. The market share held by Meo has fallen steadily in recent years. The MVNO market remains undeveloped, partly because network operators have their own low-cost brands. Collectively, MVNOs have about 2.1% share of the market.

Population coverage by 3G infrastructure is universal and so most investment has been directed to LTE and to incremental upgrades to network infrastructure. Altice Labs in February 2017 began working with Ericsson to develop 5G services and applications.

This report profiles Portugal’s mobile market, providing statistics on network operators, a review of the key regulatory issues, a snapshot of the consumer market, and an analysis of mobile data services.

Key developments:

Regulator sets reduced MTRs from July 2018;
Vodafone achieves 1Gb/s downlink speeds in LTE-A trials;
Decline in SMS traffic in wake of messaging alternatives;
NOS trialling NB-IoT;
M-payment solution developments;
Report update includes the regulator’s market data to Q4 2017, telcos’ operating and financial data to Q1 2018, recent market developments.

Companies mentioned in this report:

Meo (TMN, Portugal Telecom), NOS (Optimus, Zon Multimedia), Vodafone Portugal, CTT, Lycamobile.

Table of Contents

Market analysis
Mobile statistics

General statistics
Forecasts – mobile subscribers – 2019; 2021; 2023

Mobile infrastructure

Digital networks
5G
Long-term Evolution (LTE)
Third Generation (3G) mobile

Machine-to-Machine (M2M)
Internet-of-Things (IoT)
Mobile voice
Mobile data

Short Message Service (SMS)
Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)

Mobile broadband
Regulatory issues

Spectrum regulations and spectrum auctions

GSM licence renewal
3G
3G at 900MHz
450MHz
800MHz
3.4GHz
2.6GHz and 800MHz

Roaming

Data roaming

Mobile Number Portability (MNP)
Mobile Termination Rates (MTRs)
Network sharing

Major mobile operators

Meo
Vodafone Portugal
NOS (Zon Optimus)
Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs)

Mobile content and applications

Location-based services
M-payments
Mobile TV

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List of Tables

Table 1 – Historic - Mobile subscribers and penetration (regulator data) – 1999 – 2009
Table 2 – Mobile subscribers and penetration (regulator data) – 2010 – 2019
Table 3 – Active mobile subscribers (regulator data) – 2010 – 2017
Table 4 – Mobile sector revenue – 2004 – 2017
Table 5 – Mobile operators’ market share of subscribers (main players) – 2004 – 2017
Table 6 – Outgoing mobile calls and traffic volume – 2002 – 2017
Table 7 – Mobile prepaid subscribers, proportion prepaid – 2003 – 2017
Table 8 – Average revenue per mobile subscriber – 2013 – 2017
Table 9 – Forecast mobile subscribers – 2019; 2021; 2023
Table 10 – 3G video calls and traffic data – 2007 – 2017
Table 11 – 3G mobile subscribers – 2011 – 2017
Table 12 – M2M subscriptions – 2012 – 2017
Table 13 – M2M sessions and traffic – 2013 – 2017
Table 14 – Mobile internet sessions and traffic – 2007 – 2017
Table 15 – Proportion of mobile subscribers using instant messaging – 2013 – 2017
Table 16 – SMS messages sent annually – 2004 – 2017
Table 17 – SMS messages sent per user per month – 2010 – 2016
Table 18 – MMS messages sent – 2007 – 2017
Table 19 – MMS messages sent per user per month – 2010 – 2017
Table 20 – Active mobile broadband subscribers – 2010 – 2017
Table 21 – Mobile broadband devices – 2010 – 2017
Table 22 – Active mobile broadband subscribers and penetration – 2009 – 2017
Table 23 – Share of mobile broadband subscribers by operator (cards/modems) – 2010 – 2015
Table 24 – Share of mobile broadband subscribers by operator – 2011 – 2016
Table 25 – Mobile broadband revenue – 2007 – 2015
Table 26 – NOS mobile data use per subscriber – 2012 – 2015
Table 27 – Principal mobile broadband use among subscribers – 2016 – 2017
Table 28 – Multiband auction results – 2012
Table 29 – European roaming charges – 2007 – 2016
Table 30 – Roaming in call traffic volume and messages – 2003 – 2017
Table 31 – European data roaming charges – 2014 – 2017
Table 32 – Accumulated mobile number portings – 2002 – 2018
Table 33 – MTRs – 2009 – 2012; 2016 – 2018
Table 34 – Meo residential ARPU and data percentage – 2006 – 2017
Table 35 – Meo subscribers – 2006 – 2017
Table 36 – Meo mobile revenue – 2010 – 2017
Table 37 – Altice Portugal mobile revenue – 2016 – 2018
Table 38 – Altice Portugal revenue by quarter – 2016 – 2018
Table 39 – Vodafone Portugal subscribers, proportion prepaid – 2006 – 2018
Table 40 – Vodafone monthly ARPU: prepaid, contract and blended – 2005 – 2018
Table 41 – Vodafone financial data – 2007 – 2018
Table 42 – NOS blended mobile ARPU – 2014 – 2017
Table 43 – NOS mobile subscribers – 2003 – 2018
Table 44 – Historic - Optimus operational statistics – 2006 – 2012
Table 45 – Historic - Optimus financial data – 2006 – 2012
Table 46 – Historic - Optimus revenue by type – 2006 – 2012
Table 47 – Mobile TV sessions and traffic – 2010 – 2017
Table 48 – Mobile TV subscribers – 2010 – 2017

List of Charts

Chart 1 – Active mobile subscribers and SIM penetration rate (regulator data) – 2003 - 2019
Chart 2 – Mobile operators’ market share – 2004 – 2017
Chart 3 – Mobile prepaid subscribers, proportion prepaid – 2003 – 2017
Chart 4 – 3G video calls and traffic data – 2007 – 2017
Chart 5 – Mobile broadband subscribers – 2010 – 2017
Chart 6 – Roaming in call traffic volume and messages – 2003 – 2017
Chart 7 – Vodafone monthly ARPU: prepaid, contract and blended – 2005 – 2018
Chart 8 – Vodafone financial data (year to Mar) – 2007 – 2018

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Number of pages 65

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Last updated 6 Jul 2018
Update History

Analyst: Henry Lancaster

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Portugal - Mobile Infrastructure, Broadband, Operators - Statistics and Analyses

Synopsis

Key developments:

Companies mentioned in this report:

Market analysis

Mobile statistics

Mobile infrastructure

Machine-to-Machine (M2M)

Internet-of-Things (IoT)

Mobile voice

Mobile data

Mobile broadband

Regulatory issues

Major mobile operators

Mobile content and applications

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