The Report
This Country Report provides a comprehensive overview of the key telecoms market indicators and the socioeconomic situation in the UK. It also analyses the strategies of key players in the country's fixed and mobile telecoms markets. In addition, the Report includes a market outlook that focuses on the following key trends and emerging opportunities.
- An LTE spectrum auction is due to take place in 2012.
- Roll-out and adoption of NGA networks is gathering pace.
- Wholesale continues to be a dynamic part of the fixed market.
- As the UK mobile market matures, operators are moving away from price-based competition and embracing loyalty programmes as a way of maintaining subscribers.
- Adjacent verticals are offering UK mobile operators new growth opportunities.
The data annex
The data annex was updated on 3 April 2012 with 4Q 2011 data.
Analysys Mason's country report data annexes provide a range of key metrics for each country's telecoms market. Full-year historical figures are supplied for each year since 1999, alongside quarterly figures for the current calendar year. Metrics include the following.
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Fixed telecoms market
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Mobile telecoms market
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Connections
- PSTN
- ISDN
- VoBB
- broadband (split by access technology: DSL, cable modem, FTTH/B, FWA and other)
- households with voice
- household penetration (for voice and broadband)
- population penetration (broadband)
- unbundled local loops
- main lines digitalised (as a percentage of total narrowband lines).
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Connections (total and split by prepaid and contract)
- penetration (total)
- percentage of activity (total and split by prepaid and contract)
- 3G and above (as a percentage of total).
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Revenue
- service revenue, including nominal growth, revenue per connection per month, and the incumbent's share of revenue
- retail revenue ('spend') - defined as service revenue minus wholesale revenue – as a percentage of GDP, per capita per year and per connection per month.
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Revenue
- service revenue (total and split by prepaid and contract)
- ARPU (total, prepaid and contract)
- data revenue (as a percentage of service revenue)
- retail revenue ('spend'), also as a percentage of GDP and per capita per year.
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Traffic
- fixed-originated minutes.
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Traffic
- mobile-originated minutes.
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Operator-level metrics/market share
- broadband subscribers by major broadband operator (and associated market shares and year-on-year changes)
- DSL connections (total and the incumbent's share).
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Operator-level metrics/market share
- active subscribers (and associated market share)
- proportion of prepaid accounts
- ARPU (total, prepaid and contract)
- service revenue
- data revenue (as a percentage of service revenue).
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