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

Synopsis

Slovakia’s mobile market is served by four mobile network operators, three of which have a pan-European reach. Mobile penetration is relatively high, at about 132% by mid-2018. The introduction of mobile number portability in 2006 intensified competition between players. However, the MVNO sector remains underdeveloped, with the few operators in place having failed to gain traction and thus holding only a marginal share of the overall market.

Mobile broadband access and content services are developing rapidly in line with operators having upgraded their networks with LTE technologies. The regulator since early 2018 has prepared the groundwork for 5G services, encouraging network operators to refarm spectrum to create more continuous blocks, and readying itself for an auction of spectrum in the 1800MHz band.

This report offers insight into Slovakia’s mobile market, providing a variety of statistics as well as profiles of the mobile network operators. It also covers regulatory issues as well as developments in LTE, 5G and mobile data services.

Key developments:

Regulator opens tender for auction of spectrum in the licenses in the 1800MHz band;
Regulator and telcos reach agreement to extend broadband nationally by 2020;
Orange Slovakia and Slovak Telekom offering LTE service as substitute for fixed-line broadband;
Mobile revenue growth returns in 2017 despite reduced roaming tariffs and pricing pressure;
Orange Slovakia launches NFC-based contactless m-payment service;
Report update includes the regulator’s market data to December 2017, telcos’ operating data to Q2 2018, recent market developments.

Companies mentioned in this report:

T-Mobile Slovakia (Slovakia Telekom), Orange Slovakia, O2 Slovakia.

Table of Contents

1. Synopsis
2. Market analysis
3. Mobile statistics
- 3.1 General statistics
- 3.2 Mobile voice
- 3.3 Mobile data
  - 3.3.1 SMS/MMS
- 3.4 Mobile broadband
- 3.5 Forecasts – mobile subscribers – 2019; 2021; 2023
4. Regulatory issues
- 4.1 GSM licences
- 4.2 UMTS licences and third GSM licence
- 4.3 Fourth mobile network operator licence
- 4.4 Mobile Number Portability (MNP)
- 4.5 Mobile Termination Rates (MTR)
- 4.6 800MHz, 2600GHz
- 4.7 1800MHz
- 4.8 3.5GHz
5. Mobile infrastructure
- 5.1 Digital networks
  - 5.1.1 5G
  - 5.1.2 4G (LTE)
  - 5.1.3 3G
- 5.2 Other infrastructure developments
  - 5.2.1 M2M networks
6. Major mobile operators
- 6.1 T-Mobile Slovakia (Slovak Telekom)
- 6.2 Orange Slovakia
- 6.3 O2 Slovakia
- 6.4 SWAN Mobile
- 6.5 Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs)
7. Mobile content and applications
8. Related reports

Table 1 – Historic - Mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 1998 - 2009
Table 2 – Mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 2010 - 2019
Table 3 – Mobile GSM/3G base stations in service (historic) – 2005 - 2012
Table 4 – Population coverage by technology – 2006 - 2018
Table 5 – Geographical coverage by technology – 2010 - 2018
Table 6 – Ratio of prepaid to postpaid subscribers – 2001 - 2018
Table 7 – T-Mobile Slovakia prepaid users – 2004 - 2018
Table 8 – Historic - Telefónica O2 prepaid users – 2007 - 2013
Table 9 – Mobile network traffic – 2007 - 2018
Table 10 – Mobile market revenue – 2005 - 2017
Table 11 – SMS messages sent – 2003 - 2017
Table 12 – MMS messages sent – 2005 - 2017
Table 13 – Mobile internet subscriptions by type – 2008 - 2018
Table 14 – Active mobile broadband subscribers and penetration – 2007 - 2019
Table 15 – Forecast mobile subscribers – 2019; 2021; 2023
Table 16 – Annual mobile portings – 2006 - 2018
Table 17 – M2M connections – 2014 - 2018
Table 18 – T-Mobile Slovakia subscribers – 2006 - 2018
Table 19 – T-Mobile Slovakia mobile financial data – 2004 - 2018
Table 20 – T-Mobile Slovakia quarterly mobile service revenue – 2014 - 2018
Table 21 – T-Mobile Slovakia mobile ARPU – 2004 - 2018
Table 22 – Orange subscribers – 2007 - 2018
Table 23 – Orange mobile revenue – 2003 - 2018
Table 24 – Orange revenue by quarter – 2012 - 2018
Table 25 – Orange blended ARPU – 2012 - 2017
Table 26 – O2 Slovakia subscribers – 2007 - 2018
Table 27 – O2 Slovakia revenue, EBITDA, capex – 2016 - 2018

Chart 1 – Mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 2005 – 2019
Chart 2 – Ratio of prepaid to postpaid subscribers – 2001 – 2018
Chart 3 – Mobile network traffic – 2007 – 2018
Chart 4 – Mobile internet subscriptions by type – 2008 – 2018
Chart 5 – Mobile broadband subscribers and penetration – 2007 – 2019
Chart 6 – O2 Slovakia subscribers – 2007 – 2018

Exhibit 1 – 2G spectrum awarded in Slovakia
Exhibit 2 –Multi spectrum allocation – Dec 2013

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Number of pages 25

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Last updated 17 Oct 2018
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Analyst: Henry Lancaster

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