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

Synopsis

Slovenia’s competitive mobile market has four mobile network operators and a small number of mobile virtual network operators, operating in a country with a potential market of only two million people. With high mobile penetration, telcos have branched into offering both mobile and fixed-line services so as to offer bundled products. This strategy saw the cableco Telemach acquire Tušmobil and Si.mobil merge with Amis Telekom, with both of the latter being rebranded as A1 Slovenia in April 2017.

The regulator has addressed the need of mobile operators to be provided with more spectrum. In 2013 additional concessions were made available, while a significant multi-spectrum auction was held in 2014. An auction for left-over spectrum in the 1800MHz and 2100MHz bands was held in late 2016, with Telemach securing all three blocks on offer. Another auction for fixed-wireless broadband services using spectrum in the 3.5GHz, 10GHz and 12GHz bands is expected to be held later in 2017, mainly for the provision of fixed-wireless broadband services.

Mobile spectrum licenses have stipulated population coverage targets as well as the delivery of mobile broadband nationally, offering data of at least 10Mb/s.

This report offers analyses and statistics on the Slovenian mobile market, including updates on operators and regulatory measures.

Key developments:

Three MNOs deemed to have met LTE coverage obligations;
A1 Slovenia trials carrier aggregation technology to provide data at up to 877.5Mb/s;
Regulator and Ministry of Public Administration initiate a number of trials for the use of 5G technologies;
Telemach secures remaining spectrum in the 1800MHz and 2100MHz bands, acquires the fibre network operator Maxtel;
MVNO IZI Mobil transfers subscribers to Telekom Slovenije;
Regulator opens consultation into auction of spectrum in the 3.5GHz, 10GHz and 12GHz bands;
Contract awarded to build a GSM-R network across the national railway network;
Report update includes the regulator’s market report to December 2017, telcos’ financial and operating data to Q1 2018, recent market developments.

Companies mentioned in this report:

A1 Slovenia (Si.mobil), Mobitel, Tušmobil, Telemach, T-2, Debitel.

1. Synopsis
2. Market analysis
3. Mobile statistics
- 3.1 General statistics
- 3.2 Mobile voice services
- 3.3 Mobile data services
  - 3.3.1 Short Message Service (SMS) / Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)
- 3.4 Mobile broadband
4. Regulatory issues
- 4.1 Licensing
  - 4.1.1 GSM licences
  - 4.1.2 First 3G licence awarded
  - 4.1.3 Tender for additional 3G licences
  - 4.1.4 1800MHz and 2100MHz
  - 4.1.5 Multi-band spectrum auction – April 2014
  - 4.1.6 Multi-band spectrum auction –3.5GHz, 10GHz, 12GHz
- 4.2 Mobile Number Portability (MNP)
- 4.3 Mobile Termination Rates (MTRs)
- 4.4 Roaming
- 4.5 Mobile infrastructure
  - 4.5.1 Digital
  - 4.5.2 GSM-R
  - 4.5.3 3G/UMTS
  - 4.5.4 Long-term Evolution (LTE)
  - 4.5.5 5G developments
- 4.6 M2M and internet-of-Things (IoT)
5. Major mobile operators
- 5.1 Mobitel
- 5.2 A1 Slovenia (Si.mobil)
- 5.3 Telemach Mobil (Tušmobil)
- 5.4 T-2
- 5.5 Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs)
  - 5.5.1 Debitel
  - 5.5.2 Voljamobil (IZI Mobil)
  - 5.5.3 Amis Mobil
6. Mobile content and applications
7. Related reports

Table 1 – Historic - Mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 1997 - 2009
Table 2 – Mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 2010 - 2018
Table 3 – Operator market share by active subscribers – 2009 - 2017
Table 4 – Ratio of prepaid to postpaid subscribers – 2000 - 2017
Table 5 – A1 Slovenia prepaid subscribers – 2004 - 2018
Table 6 – Mobile voice traffic per user – 2014 - 2018
Table 7 – Total SMS messages sent – 2005 - 2017
Table 8 – SMS sent per user – 2014 - 2018
Table 9 – Total MMS messages sent – 2007 - 2017
Table 10 – Share of mobile broadband subscribers by operator – 2012 - 2016
Table 11- Mobile broadband traffic per user – 2014 - 2016
Table 12- A1 Slovenia mobile broadband subscribers – 2009 - 2018
Table 13- Active mobile broadband subscribers and penetration – 2010 - 2017
Table 14 – Mobile number portings – 2006 – 2017
Table 15 – Mobile Termination Rates – 2007 – 2010; 2017
Table 18 – Mobitel subscribers – 2008 - 2018
Table 19 – A1 Slovenia – 2004 – 2018
Table 20 – A1 Slovenia prepaid, postpaid and blended monthly ARPU – 2004 – 2018
Table 21 – A1 Slovenia Minutes of Use (MOU) – 2007 – 2018
Table 22 – A1 Slovenia subscribers – 2007 - 2018

Chart 1 – Mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 2003 – 2018
Chart 2 – Operator market share by active subscribers – 2009 – 2017
Chart 3 – Ratio of prepaid to postpaid subscribers – 2000 – 2017
Chart 4 – A1 Slovenia financial data – 2004 – 2018
Chart 5 – A1 Slovenia prepaid, postpaid and blended monthly ARPU – 2004 – 2018
Chart 6 – A1 Slovenia subscribers – 2007 – 2018

Exhibit 1 – 2G spectrum awarded in Slovenia
Exhibit 2 – 4G spectrum results – 2014

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Last updated 6 Jul 2018
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Analyst: Henry Lancaster

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