|
|
 |
|
Viewing report
|
|
|
|
Germany (country regulation overview)
Ovum, Sep 2010, Pages: 20
During 2009 and 2010 to date, the German market has made significant progress in adopting the European Commission’s (EC) regulatory framework. The telecoms regulator, Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA), has finalized the market for retail call services including carrier selection and pre-selection services, and submitted final decisions on the markets for call termination and origination provided at a fixed location. Moreover, it is conducting a second round of market analysis on the markets for termination services at a fixed location and mobile networks. To encourage further competition, BNetzA needs to quickly finalize the outstanding market decisions and to review its decisions on some of the existing markets.
BNetzA is currently in the process of finalizing the new decisions on the markets for local loop unbundling and wholesale broadband access services. Once implemented, these will encourage further competition in the high-potential broadband services market, which had a population penetration of 30.4% at the end of January 2010; higher than the average penetration of the EU27 (24.8%).
Germany is still among the countries with high interconnection rates in both the fixed and mobile segments compared to other leading EU countries such as the UK and France. If relevant measures are not adopted, this will further exacerbate the ongoing slowdown in the growth of fixed-line and mobile markets, which grew marginally by 0.3% and 0.9% respectively in 2009 compared with the previous year.
To offer some respite to the mobile operators, BNetzA is auctioning all additional frequencies in the 800MHz, 1.8GHz, 2GHz, and 2.6GHz bands as flexible frequencies, free of service and technological obligations, to enable them to choose cost-efficient technology and to allow them to launch services with a shorter time to market. Initiatives such as these have the potential to save costs for the operators which could be translated to the end user, helping operators to withstand competition from the increasing number of players in the market.
Customers who bought this item also bought
Austria (country regulation overview)
Radio Spectrum: The Mobile Broadband Bottleneck? - 5th Edition
Germany - Telecoms, IP Networks, Digital Media and Forecasts
Greece (Country Regulation Overview)
Germany - Key Statistics, Telecom Market and Regulatory Overviews
Sweden (Country Regulation Overview)
The availability of spectrum for LTE
Germany Telecommunications Report Q4 2010
Spain (Country Regulation Overview)
Germany Telecommunications Report Q3 2011
|
|
|
|
