Broadband Overview: Eastern Europe

Publication Date	February 2007
Publisher	Ovum
Product Type	Report
Pages	34
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	OVM00295

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Summary

This report provides an overview of the broadband markets and key players in the main Eastern Europe countries.

Broadband in Eastern Europe is rapidly gaining momentum, driven by increasing competition and more widespread deployment of DSL and/or cable services.

Poland and Russia have exhibited the highest levels of absolute growth over the previous six-year period. As a proportion of households, Internet penetration is highest in Poland, with Czech Republic and Slovakia also showing rapid adoption.

Hungary is currently leading Eastern Europe in terms of broadband penetration. Ukraine continues to be relatively undeveloped in terms of Internet and broadband penetration, largely due to poor Internet infrastructure, and low availability of residential broadband.

Broadband availability is gradually improving across most of Eastern Europe, with higher levels of bandwidth and improving geographical coverage. Bandwidth in excess of 5Mbit/s is now available in Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia and Ukraine. Within the broadband market, DSL is gaining increased momentum, most notably in Slovakia and Russia, whilst the prevalence of UPC is driving cable in some key areas. Ukraine is an exception to this, where Volia has enabled cable to overtake DSL for the first time.

The state of Eastern Europe's telecommunications differs significantly across the region, with a mix of aluminium, copper, fixed-wireless and fibre networks. In many of these countries, we are seeing significant fixed-to-mobile substitution, largely due to low fixed line penetration in some countries.

The majority of networks are copper-based, but in a number of countries legacy aluminium networks are still used for communications services. We have a spurt of municipal fibre deployments, but these have been relatively few and are typically not extended beyond the initial group of residents.

Due to the relatively low fixed-line penetration in much of Eastern Europe, we see an opportunity for fixed-wireless access, at least in the short term. The demand for advanced content is limited, which would deem FWA a good alternative for basic data, and even VoIP services.

Content

Broadband overview: Eastern Europe
Regional overview and analysis
Czech Republic
Country overview and analysis
Key figures
Key broadband players
Regulatory environment
Hungary
Country overview and analysis
Key figures
Key broadband players
Regulatory environment
Poland
Country overview and analysis
Key figures
Key broadband players
The regulatory environment
Russia
Country overview and analysis
Key figures
Key broadband players
Slovakia
Country overview and analysis
Key figures
Key broadband players
Regulatory environment
Ukraine
Country overview and analysis
Key figures
Key broadband players
The regulatory environment
Table of figures
- Figure 1 Internet growth by country
- Figure 2 Internet penetration by country
- Figure 3 Broadband penetration by country
- Figure 4 Price of broadband by country
- Figure 5 Broadband markets by technology, 2006
- Figure 6 Broadband market development 2005-2010
- Figure 7 Internet connections
- Figure 8 Broadband subscribers by technology
- Figure 9 Broadband pricing of top two operators
- Figure 10 Czech Republic in figures
- Figure 11 Top-level broadband figures for Czech Republic
- Figure 12 Broadband player subscribers (000s)
- Figure 13 Telefnica O2 Czech's residential DSL offerings
- Figure 14 UPC Czech's residential broadband offerings
- Figure 15 Internet connections
- Figure 16 Broadband subscribers by technology
- Figure 17 Broadband pricing of the top three operators
- Figure 18 Hungary in figures
- Figure 19 Top-level broadband figures for Hungary
- Figure 20 Broadband player subscribers (000s)
- Figure 21 T-Online's (Magyar Telecom) residential broadband offerings
- Figure 22 Emitel's (Magyar Telecom) residential broadband offerings
- Figure 23 UPC Hungary's residential broadband offerings
- Figure 24 Internet connections
- Figure 25 Broadband subscribers by technology
- Figure 26 Broadband pricing of the top two operators
- Figure 27 Poland in figures (000s)
- Figure 28 Top-level broadband figures for Poland ('000s)
- Figure 29 Broadband subscribers (000s)
- Figure 30 TP's residential broadband offerings
- Figure 31 UPC Poland's residential broadband offerings
- Figure 32 Internet connections
- Figure 33 Broadband subscribers by technology
- Figure 34 Broadband pricing of the leading operator
- Figure 35 Russia in figures
- Figure 36 Top-level broadband figures for Russia (000s)
- Figure 37 Broadband subscribers (000s)
- Figure 38 MTU-Intel residential broadband offerings
- Figure 39 Internet connections
- Figure 40 Broadband subscribers by technology
- Figure 41 Broadband pricing of the top operator
- Figure 42 Slovakia in figures (000s)
- Figure 43 Top-level broadband figures for Slovakia
- Figure 44 broadband player subscribers (000s)
- Figure 45 Slovak Telecom's residential broadband offerings
- Figure 46 Internet connections
- Figure 47 Broadband subscribers by technology
- Figure 48 Ukraine in figures
- Figure 49 Top-level broadband figures for Ukraine ('000s)
- Figure 50 broadband player subscribers (000s)
- Figure 51 UKR Telecom residential broadband offerings
- Figure 52 Volia Telecom residential broadband offerings