Spain Internet Market Statistics, 2001-2010

The Spanish Internet Services Market was worth €2.2 billion at the end of 2006, consisting of 7.7 million internet connections and making up 50% of total households.

Similar to other Western European markets, the Spanish market is nearing saturation of PC households. We expect growth to arise from a migration to faster connectivity speeds driven by increased consumer awareness of broadband services and greater Spanish-language content. Overall broadband ARPU is expected to decline mildly due to increased price competition between service providers, although this will be offset in part by consumers having higher bandwidth requirements. Given the current popularity of IPTV in Spain, we expect take-up of IPTV to increase with broadband connections and constitute around 30% of broadband households by 2010.

This report provides comprehensive five year historical and five year forecast market sizing data across the residential Spanish Internet Services Market, consisting of:

• Households
• PC households
• Total internet connections
• Total broadband connections
• Total DSL connections, split by:
  • 0-2Mbit/s
  • 2-10Mbit/s
  • 10+ Mbit/s
• Total cable modem connections
• Dial-up connections
• IPTV households
• Fixed internet penetration
• PC household penetration
• Broadband penetration of PC households
• Mobile internet connections
• Broadband access revenues
• Dial-up access revenues

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Our market reports are based on robust, tried and tested, research methodologies. Historical market data is sourced largely from regulatory and company sources, where available. In cases where historical information is unavailable, we compile market assumptions and test these with industry professionals and experts. All our forecasts are sense checked both from a bottom-up and top-down perspective.

All variables are clearly defined. This report is available in Microsoft Excel format.