Disclaimer and Legal Notices..........2
European Fixed Broadband and Internet Market: FttH and DOCSIS driving high-capacity
broadband to 2020..........5
European Digital Media Market - gearing up for 2012 ASO..........6
European Mobile Operators..........7
Moving from voice to data..........7
Exploiting international opportunities..........7
Growing MVNO market share..........7
European Mobile Operators..........8
Markets highlights:..........9
- Finland..........9
- Germany..........9
- Sweden..........9
European Telecommunications Infrastructure and NGNs - on track for
comprehensive fibre-based NGNs by 2020..........10
Country Overviews..........11
Albania - Telecoms, Mobile, Broadband and Forecasts..........11
Austria completes DTTV ASO, readies reassignment of spectrum for mobile broadband..........13
Belarus - Broadband all the rage in Belarus..........15
Belgium - 2011 spectrum auction clears the path for LTE..........16
Bosnia-Herzegovina - A developing market fraught with opportunity..........18
Bulgaria - Major telcos boost investment in FttH across the country by 2014..........19
Croatia benefits from ASO with LTE trials progressing in the 800MHz band to
improve rural broadband..........21
Cyprus - Evidence of improved competition across the market..........23
Czech Republic - Telecoms, IP Networks, Digital Media and Forecasts..........24
Denmark ambitious for 1Gb/s fibre access by 2020..........26
Estonia's fibre broadband on target for 2015 national rollout..........28
Finland's new 200Mb's service supporting the government's National Broadband
Plan for 2015..........30
France - Network sharing among telcos speeds up FttH to rural France..........32
Germany - Telecom market investment recovers despite continuing slide in revenue..........34
Greece - Proof that a well developed regulatory environment can stimulate competition..........36
Hungary - Growing appetite for next generation broadband in Hungary..........38
Iceland - Revived investment in Iceland's telecom market following economic crash..........40
Ireland - telecom sector remains crucial to economic recovery..........42
Italy - NGNs receiving greater regulatory impetus..........44
Kosovo..........46
Latvia - future competitive fibre infrastructure needing effective regulation..........48
Lithuania..........50
Luxembourg..........52
Macedonia..........54
Malta..........55
Moldova - Mobile powers on despite the bumps..........56
Montenegro - Telecoms fight on in Montenegro..........58
Netherlands - Maturing digital market overturns Open Cable ruling..........59
Norway - Telenor expands fibre footprint through acquisitions..........61
Portugal's ASO in early 2012 paves way for sub-GHz mobile broadband..........63
Romania - DTTV on track for completion in 2015..........65
Russia - mobile operators unite to extend LTE to remote areas by 2014..........67
Serbia..........69
Slovakia - feels the need for broadband speed..........71
Spain - ambitious FttH plans under fire from economic crisis and competition..........73
Sweden's 800MHz spectrum auction to expand LTE availability to rural areas..........75
Switzerland's regulated fibre-based NGN an example to Europe..........76
Ukraine - Ukrtelecom's sale implies overhaul of mobile sector..........78
United Kingdom's regulated fibre sector shifts emphasis to FttH..........80
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