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Europe - Mobile Market - Overview & Statistics

Synopsis Most of Europe's mobile markets are saturated, with only France in early 2010 having less than 100% mobile penetration. Continuing growth is largely in the 3G sector as subscribers migrate from GSM networks. Operators have encouraged this migration in a bid to exploit the potential raised by their investments in upgraded technologies such as HSPA+ and LTE. Although the proportion of data to overall revenue has increased for most network operators, mobile data use remains stubbornly low as subscribers remain sceptical of the usefulness of many data applications as well as their high cost. Regulatory controls on data roaming and increasing competition among providers will go some way to address this in coming years. This report provides key statistics and analysis on Europe's mobile phone market in 2010, including data on subscriber numbers, mobile penetration, and market growth. The report assesses legal issues relating to interconnection voice and data roaming, as well as the status of analogue and digital technologies. The principal mobile operators across Europe are also profiled, including statistics on their customer base, financial results and strategies for coming years.

Last Update: 30 Mar 2010 Number of Pages: 37

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Table of Contents

1. Synopsis
2. Mobile communications in Europe
2.1 Market overview
2.2 Investment forecasts
2.3 Leading European nations by subscribers
2.4 Leading European nations by penetration
2.5 Leading European nations by growth
3. Regulatory environment
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Roaming
3.2.1 Amendments
3.2.2 Data roaming
3.3 Mobile termination rates (MTRs)
3.4 Mobile number portability (MNP)
3.5 Other developments
3.5.1 Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA)
3.5.2 Mobile VoIP
3.5.3 Femtocells
4. Mobile technologies
4.1 Analogue networks
4.2 Digital networks
4.3 Spectrum issues
4.3.1 900MHz
4.3.2 Digital dividend spectrum
4.4 Third Generation (3G)
4.4.1 TD-SCDMA trials in Europe
4.5 Mobile handsets
4.5.1 Nokia
4.5.2 Sony Ericsson
4.5.3 Motorola
4.5.4 Huawei
4.5.5 Samsung
4.5.6 iPhone
4.5.7 Android-based
4.5.8 BlackBerry
4.6 Mobile application stores
4.6.1 Apple App Store
4.6.2 Android Market
4.6.3 BlackBerry App World
4.6.4 Other players
4.7 Mobile satellite
5. Mobile prepaid market
5.1 Prepaid services
6. Major mobile operators
6.1 Market overview
6.2 O2 Group
6.3 Orange Group
6.4 Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM)
6.5 T-Mobile
6.6 Vodafone
6.7 H3
6.8 Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs)
7. Mobile alliances
7.1 FreeMove
7.2 Starmap
8. Related reports

Table 1 - Annualised European voice and data market annual growth - 2006 - 2011

Table 2 - Voice market Europe in minutes - 2000; 2005; 2010

Table 3 - Minutes of use (select countries) - Q2, Q3 2009

Table 4 - SIM penetration by country - 2008 - 2011

Table 5 - Mobile price baskets by usage - EU27 - 2004 - 2008

Table 6 -EU mobile subscribers and penetration rate - 2004 - 2011

Table 7 - Mobile market share by operator type - 2004 - 2008

Table 8 - Average ARPU (€) by country in select European countries - 2006 - 2007; 2009

Table 9 - Data as proportion of total mobile revenue - Q2 2008; Q3 2009

Table 10 - Top 10 European nations by subscribers and annual change - 2009

Table 11 - Top 10 European nations by penetration - 2007 - 2009

Table 12 - Subscriber growth by sector - Q3 2009

Table 13 - European roaming charges - 2007 - 2011

Table 14 - EU average mobile termination charges - 2004 - 2009

Table 15 - Mobile numbers ported as % of total (select countries) - 2008

Table 16 - Total mobile numbers ported as % of total - 2006 - 2008

Table 17 - Mobile numbers ported (select countries) - 2006 - 2008

Table 18 - GSM subscribers - 1997 - 2011

Table 19 - UMTS 900MHz regulatory status - 2010

Table 20 - 3G subscribers - 2004 - 2011

Table 21 - Camera phone sales and forecasts - 2005 - 2006; 2010

Table 22 - Market shares of handset makers (Europe) - 2003 - 2008

Table 23 - Sony Ericsson operating data - 2007 - 2009

Table 24 - Motorola operating data - 2007 - 2009

Table 25 - Prepaid proportion of all subscribers in European countries - 2009

Table 26 - O2 Group mobile subscribers - 2005 - 2009

Table 27 - O2 Group turnover and EBITDA - 2002 - 2009

Table 28 - O2 Group blended monthly ARPU - 2006 - 2009

Table 29 - Orange Group mobile subscribers by sector - 2005 - 2009

Table 30 - Orange mobile revenue - 2005 - 2009

Table 31 - TIM domestic mobile subscribers and traffic in minutes - 2005 - 2009

Table 32 - T-Mobile subscribers in selected European countries - 2001 - 2009

Table 33 - T-Mobile ARPU in selected European countries - 2006 - 2009

Table 34 - Vodafone blended ARPU (principal markets) - 2005 - 2008

Table 35 - Vodafone subscribers (principal markets) - 2005 - 2008

Table 36 - Vodafone voice usage - 2005 - 2008

Table 37 - H3 subscribers - Aug 2009

Table 38 - H3 revenue - H1 2009

Table 39 - Number of network operators, resellers and MVNOs - 2000 - 2010

Exhibit 1 -Roaming Regulation amendments -July 2009 - 2013

Exhibit 2 - Selected MVNOs and resellers in Europe - 2010