| 2008 Europe - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband | | | | IPTV offering overshadows the pay TV market |
| Report ( ) includes developments in | | | | despite its third place ranking in terms of |
| telecommunications, mobile, Internet, broadband, | | | | subscribers, due to the reach of its fixed-line |
| digital TV and converging media including | | | | network and its financial resources. During 2009 |
| broadband, triple play, IPTV as well as 3G | | | | and 2010 BuddeComm expects consolidation to |
| developments. | | | | take place due to competition and the size of |
| This report presents an overview of the telecom | | | | Montenegro’s market. |
| markets in what are arguably some of Eastern | | | | Use of e-government services is growing |
| Europe’s most promising, including an | | | | year-on-year in Cyprus, as individuals and the |
| assessment of sector liberalisation and | | | | majority of businesses utilise the Internet for |
| privatisation, together with the key regulatory | | | | interaction and transactions with administrative |
| measures which affect competition and | | | | bodies. Similar e-government initiatives are |
| investment. Emerging players in liberalised markets | | | | underway in all other countries, with support |
| are introduced and new infrastructure | | | | coming from the EU. As Internet take up |
| deployments covered. The important broadband | | | | increases, usage of e-government and other |
| market is assessed, along with forecasts for | | | | Internet society services is expected to rise. |
| broadband growth to 2018 in Croatia and Cyprus | | | | Mobile operators in region are beginning to focus |
| based on factors such as network investment, | | | | on mobile data, leveraging the now widely-available |
| the regulatory environment and consumer | | | | EDGE/WCDMA/HSDPA networks to launch |
| demand. The report provides essential statistics | | | | aggressively priced mobile broadband services |
| covering the broadband, mobile and digital TV | | | | with prepaid data bundles. This trend is more |
| sectors, highlighting technological developments | | | | evident in highly-penetrated markets where |
| and the emergence of media convergence and | | | | competing operators have deployed WCDMA |
| triple play offerings. | | | | HSDPA networks such as in Croatia, Cyprus, |
| Macedonia’s largest competing broadband | | | | Montenegro and Serbia. Competition is expected |
| provider, which despite possessing a wireless | | | | to force down prices and increase prepaid data |
| broadband network providing 95% population | | | | bundles as revenue growth opportunities fade in |
| coverage, is constructing its own ADSL2+ | | | | highly-penetrated mobile voice markets. As mobile |
| network over which it plans to offer VoIP | | | | broadband tariff prices fall, in the medium term |
| services. Montenegro’s pay TV market has | | | | the mobile operators will be competing |
| developed overnight as a number of cable | | | | head-to-head with the fixed and portable wireless |
| operators launched operations after receiving | | | | providers. |
| licences in 2007. However, the incumbent’s | | | | |