Norway - Mobile Market - Background Report September 2010

Last updated: 5 Oct 2010 Update History

Report Status: Archived

Report Pages: 20

Analyst: Henry Lancaster

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Synopsis

Norway’s mobile market is a triopoly between the network operators Telenor Mobile, TeliaSonera’s NetCom and the new player Mobile Norway, supplemented by a growing number of MVNOs. Mobile penetration reached 115% by mid-2010, and although overall subscriber growth has fallen to about 3% the 3G sector has proved resilient, with strong growth resulting from new subscribers as well as from the rapid migration from GSM networks. Both Telenor and NetCom operate GSM and 3G services, while Mobile Norway, the joint venture between Network Norway and Tele2 has deployed a 3G in the 90MHz band. Nordisk Mobiltelefon recovered from its bankruptcy in early 2009 and operates a 3G network in the 450MHz band. This report profiles Norway’s mobile market in 2010, providing an overview of mobile statistics, regulatory issues and technologies, as well as a snapshot of the consumer market for mobile data services such as SMS, mobile TV and mobile broadband. Regularly updated statistics as well as forecasts and further commentary and analysis on new market developments are available from the Norway - Mobile Market - Statistics and Forecasts report.

1. Synopsis
2. Mobile communications
- 2.1 Overview of Norway’s mobile market
  - 2.1.1 Mobile statistics
  - 2.1.2 Operator market shares
3. Regulatory issues
- 3.1 Spectrum regulations and spectrum auctions
  - 3.1.1 GSM
  - 3.1.2 3G
  - 3.1.3 2.3GHz
  - 3.1.4 2.5 - 2.6GHz
  - 3.1.5 1.8GHz.
  - 3.1.6 10GHz
  - 3.1.7 23GHz
  - 3.1.8 Other frequencies
- 3.2 Roaming
- 3.3 Number portability
- 3.4 Mobile termination rates (MTRs)
4. Mobile technologies
- 4.1 Analogue
- 4.2 Digital
  - 4.2.1 Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)
- 4.3 Third Generation (3G) mobile
5. Major mobile operators
- 5.1 Telenor Mobile
  - 5.1.1 Network contracts
- 5.2 NetCom
- 5.3 Mobile Norway
- 5.4 Teletopia
- 5.5 Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs)
6. Mobile voice services
- 6.1 Prepaid
7. Mobile messaging
- 7.1 Short Message Service (SMS)
- 7.2 Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)
8. Mobile data services
- 8.1 Overview
- 8.2 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
- 8.3 High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA)
- 8.4 Enhanced data for GSM evolution (EDGE)
- 8.5 Long-term evolution (LTE)
- 8.6 Mobile TV
- 8.7 Femtocells
- 8.8 TETRA (TErrestrial Trunked RAdio)
9. Mobile broadband (access)
10. Mobile content and applications
- 10.1 Location-based services
- 10.2 M-commerce
11. Related reports

Table 1 – Mobile market turnover by sector – 2006 - 2008
Table 2 – Mobile market turnover by sector – H1 2009
Table 3 – Mobile revenue – 2002 - 2011
Table 4 – Mobile revenue per subscriber and per minute – 2001 - 2009
Table 5 – Mobile operators, subscribers and annual change – Jun 2010
Table 6 – Mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 1995; 1997; 1999 - 2011
Table 7 – Mobile traffic – 2004 - 2011
Table 8 – Subscriber, traffic, SMS and turnover market shares by provider – H1 2009
Table 9 – European roaming charges – 2007 - 2012
Table 10 – Mobile number portings – 2002 - 2007
Table 11 – Average mobile number portings – 2005 - 2009
Table 12 – Nordisk Mobiltelefon financial data – 2006 - 2008
Table 13 – Nordisk Mobiltelefon subscribers (Norway) – 2006 - 2008
Table 14 – Telenor Mobil – subscribers, prepaid, SMS and market share – 2000 - 2010
Table 15 – Telenor Mobil financial data – 2005 - 2010
Table 16 – Telenor Mobil ARPU: blended, contract and prepaid – 2004 - 2009
Table 17 – NetCom subscribers and ARPU: blended, contract and prepaid – 2002 - 2009
Table 18 – NetCom revenue – 2004 - 2009
Table 19 – Mobile Norway (Tele2) subscribers by sector – 2007 - 2009
Table 20 – Mobile Norway (Tele2) financial data by sector – 2007 - 2009
Table 21 – Prepaid subscribers as share of total – 1999; 2005 - 2008
Table 22 – Telenor Mobile (Norway) contract and prepaid subscribers – 2001 - 2009
Table 23 – Annual SMS sent – 1999 - 2009
Table 24 – MMS messages sent and annual change – 2004 - 2009
Table 25 – Mobile data traffic – 2008 - 2009
Table 26 – Operator share of mobile broadband subscribers – 2007 - 2008
Table 27 – Mobile broadband subscribers – 2005 - 2010
Table 28 – Mobile broadband revenue – 2006 - 2010
Table 29 – Mobile broadband traffic – 2006 - 2008

Exhibit 1 – 3G beauty contest license results in Norway – 2000; 2003; 2007
Exhibit 2 – Premium SMS market overview – 2008

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