European Mobile Market

Source: The Worldwide Directory of Mobile Network Operators 2008 & CMSinfo c. 2008

At the end of 2007 the Top 10 European nations acounted for 76 percent of the European mobile subscriber market. Russia was the largest European mobile phone market with some 157.9 million mobile subscribers, and representing some 18.5 percent of the European mobile market. Register here for a free report on the Eastern Europe telecom market, including detailed mobile phone market statistics. In second place was Germany with some 97.2 million subscribers (11.4 percent), followed by Italy in third place with some 82.8 million users (9.7 percent). The UK market, with 73.1 million subscribers, represents 9 percent of the market, and is in fourth place. In total there were some 854.7 million mobile subscribers in Europe at the end of 2007.

Europe's Top 50 Mobile Network Operators by Subscribers

Rank	Country:	Mobile Operator:	Subscribers 4Q 2007	% share
1	Russia	Mobile TeleSystems	57,430,000	6.7%
2	Russia	VimpelCom	42,221,000	4.9%
3	Italy	Telecom Italia Mobile	36,331,000	4.2%
4	Germany	T-Mobile	36,000,000	4.2%
5	Russia	MegaFon	35,660,000	4.1%
6	Germany	Vodafone D2	33,920,000	3.9%
7	France	Orange France	24,226,000	2.8%
8	Ukraine	Kyivstar GSM	23,604,000	2.7%
9	Spain	Telefónica Móviles España	22,826,600	2.7%
10	Italy	Vodafone Omnitel	22,791,000	2.7%
11	Ukraine	Ukrainian Mobile Communication (UMC)	20,500,000	2.4%
12	France	Société Française de Radiotéléphone	18,766,000	2.2%
13	United Kingdom	Vodafone	18,447,000	2.1%
14	United Kingdom	Telefónica O2	18,382,000	2.1%
15	United Kingdom	T-Mobile	17,300,000	2.0%
16	Spain	Vodafone Espana	15,810,000	1.8%
17	United Kingdom	Orange PCS	15,642,000	1.8%
18	Italy	Wind Telecomunicazioni	15,600,000	1.8%
19	Germany	E-Plus Mobilfunk	14,807,000	1.7%
20	Poland	Telekomunikacja Polska	14,158,000	1.6%
21	Poland	Polkomtel	13,452,000	1.6%
22	Poland	Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa	13,000,000	1.5%
23	Germany	Telefónica O2 Germany	12,472,000	1.5%
24	Spain	France Telecom España	11,091,000	1.3%
25	Romania	S.C. Orange Romania	9,813,000	1.1%
26	France	Bouygues Telecom	8,949,038	1.0%
27	Romania	Vodafone Romania	8,808,000	1.0%
28	Ukraine	Astelit	8,800,000	1.0%
29	Netherlands	KPN Mobile	8,730,769	1.0%
30	Russia	TELE2 Russia Telecom	8,560,000	1.0%
31	Italy	H3G	8,100,000	0.9%
32	Greece	COSMOTE	6,278,846	0.7%
33	Portugal	TMN	6,244,160	0.7%
34	Kazakhstan	GSM Kazakhstan	6,017,000	0.7%
35	Serbia	Telekom Srbija A.D.	5,576,923	0.6%
36	Greece	Vodafone-Panafon	5,438,000	0.6%
37	Czech Republic	T-Mobile Czech	5,300,000	0.6%
38	Czech Republic	Telefónica O2	5,126,000	0.6%
39	Portugal	Vodafone Portugal	5,111,000	0.6%
40	Russia	Uralsvyazinform	5,100,000	0.6%
41	Bulgaria	Mobiltel EAD	5,098,600	0.6%
42	Switzerland	Swisscom Mobile	5,010,000	0.6%
43	Hungary	Magyar Telekom	4,900,000	0.6%
44	Netherlands	T-Mobile Netherlands	4,900,000	0.6%
45	Sweden	TeliaSonera Sweden	4,807,000	0.6%
46	Belgium	Belgacom Mobile	4,620,000	0.5%
47	Kazakhstan	Kar-Tel	4,603,000	0.5%
48	Greece	Wind Hellas	4,520,000	0.5%
49	Russia	Sibirtelecom	4,134,615	0.5%
50	Netherlands	Vodafone Libertel	4,038,000	0.5%
	Other		146,561,543	17.1%
	Total		859,582,095	100.0%

Source: The Worldwide Directory of Mobile Network Operators 2008 & CMSinfo c. 2008

European States by Mobile Penetration: 4Q 2007

State	Mobile Penetration	State	Mobile Penetration
Faroe Islands	205%	Belgium	104%
Gibraltar	179%	Latvia	101%
Montenegro	167%	Macedonia (FYROM)	93%
Greece	151%	Greenland	92%
Channel Islands	149%	Slovenia	89%
Italy	142%	Serbia	89%
Bulgaria	139%	Switzerland	88%
Cyprus	139%	Andorra	83%
Ireland	138%	France	81%
Lithuania	135%	Belarus	74%
Portugal	133%	Åland Islands, Finland	74%
Denmark	132%	Luxembourg	71%
Czech Republic	129%	Kazakhstan	70%
Spain	124%	Albania	64%
Monaco	121%	Malta	62%
United Kingdom	120%	Armenia	61%
Ukraine	120%	Azerbaijan	59%
Estonia	120%	Hungary	57%
Sweden	119%	Georgia	56%
Austria	118%	Kosovo	49%
Germany	118%	Moldova	42%
Netherlands	117%	Tajikistan	40%
Finland	114%	Bosnia and Herzegovina	38%
Croatia	113%	Nagorno Karabakh Republic (NKR)	36%
Russia	112%	Georgia (Abkhazia)	31%
Slovakia	107%	Kyrgyzstan	30%
Poland	107%	Uzbekistan	22%
Iceland	106%	Liechtenstein	16%
Norway	106%	Abkhazia	11%
Romania	106%	Turkmenistan	8%

Source: The Worldwide Directory of Mobile Network Operators 2008 & CMSinfo c. 2008

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