Germany's MNOs closing 3G networks
With one of Europe's largest telecom markets, Germany hosts a number of significant operators which offer effective competition in the mobile and broadband sectors. Telekom Deutschland remains the dominant provider in the fixed-line segment, though there is increasing competition from operators including freenet, Vodafone Germany, and Telefónica Germany, each of which is making use of regulatory measures aimed at facilitating wholesale network access to provide fibre-based broadband services.The German mobile market is driven by mobile data, with the number of mobile broadband subscribers having increased rapidly in recent years. With LTE now effectively universally available, considerable progress has recently been made in building out 5G networks. Telekom's 5G service provided about 80% population coverage by March 2021. This was expected to be increased to 90% coverage by the end of the year.
This report introduces the key aspects of the German telecom market, providing data on the country's fixed network infrastructure as well as key regulatory developments including the status of interconnection, local loop unbundling, number portability, and carrier preselection. The report also covers the mobile voice and data sectors, including an overview of the main operators and their strategies for dealing with competition and emerging technologies, also an assessment of recent regulatory developments and spectrum auctions. In addition, the report analyses the fixed and wireless broadband markets, together with subscriber forecasts and an assessment of developments with related technologies such as FttP, DOCSIS3.1 and powerline broadband.
Key Developments:
- Unsere Grune Glasfaser joint venture starts building 50,000km wholesale fibre access network;
- Regulator approves four-year termination rates to 2023, sets reduced MTRs through to 2022;
- Telekom Deutschland launches standalone 5G service;
- Additional security measures applied to 5G network components;
- Telefónica Germany reports 98% LTE coverage;
- Vodafone Germany to extend its 1Gb/s service to 25 million premises by 2022;
- NetCologne rolls out 1Gb/s service in Cologne;
- EWE to invest more than 1 billion in fibre-based infrastructure to 2026;
Table of Contents
- Key statistics
- Regional Europe Market Comparison
- Market characteristics
- Market Leaders
- Market Challengers
- Market Emergents
- TMI versus GDP
- Mobile and mobile broadband penetration
- Fixed versus mobile broadband penetration
- Telecommunications market
- Recent developments
- Historical overview
- Regulatory environment
- Historical overview
- Regulatory authority
- Fixed-line developments
- Privatisation
- Interconnect
- Access
- Number Portability (NP)
- Carrier PreSelection (CPS)
- Mobile market developments
- Spectrum regulations and spectrum auctions
- Roaming
- Mobile Number Portability (MNP)
- Mobile Termination Rate (MTR)
- Mobile market
- Market analysis
- Mobile statistics
- Operator market shares
- Mobile infrastructure
- 5G
- 4G (LTE)
- 3G
- Other infrastructure developments
- Mobile voice/VoLTE
- Mobile data services
- Mobile broadband
- Major mobile operators
- Telekom Deutschland
- Vodafone Germany
- Telefonica Germany
- Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs)
- Mobile content and applications
- Mobile banking
- M-payments
- Mobile Cloud
- Fixed-line broadband market
- Introduction and statistical overview
- Market analysis
- Government support
- Government Broadband Strategy
- Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) networks
- Cable market consolidation
- Unitymedia
- Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) networks
- VDSL
- Providers
- G.fast
- Fibre-to-the-Premises (FttP) networks
- Telekom Deutschland
- Telefonica
- Other developments
- Other fixed broadband services
- Broadband Powerline (BPL)
- Fixed wireless
- Fixed network operators
- Market overview
- Telekom Deutschland (Telekom)
- Vodafone Germany
- Freenet
- Tele2 Germany
- Telefonica Germany
- Telecommunications infrastructure
- National telecom network
- International infrastructure
- Terrestrial
- Submarine cable networks
- Satellite networks
- Smart infrastructure
- Smart cities
- Appendix - Historic data
- Glossary of abbreviations
- Related reports
List of Tables
List of Charts
List of Exhibits
Companies Mentioned
- Telekom Deutschland
- Freenet
- BT Global Services
- Tele2 Germany
- Telefonica Germany
- Vodafone Germany
- E-Plus
- CallMobile
- QSC
- Kabel BW
- Kabel Deutschland
- Unitymedia
- PrimaCom
- The Cloud
- Energie Baden-Wurttemberg
