Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Ovum Plc
Published: August 2009
Product Code: R464-1481Description Germany's PSTN market opened up to competition on 1 January 1998 in accordance with the EU directive. Prior to this, only the data and mobile markets faced any form of competition from new operators.
Table of Contents - Overview
- Fixed market overview
- Internet
- Multiplay: dual, triple, and quad players
- Mobile market overview
- National regulatory authority
- Role of the German competition authority
- Key legislation and regulation
- Laws
- Current status of market analysis
- Wireless licensing
- GSM licences
- 3G licences
- WiMAX (broadband wireless access)
- Flexible frequency spectrum
- DVB-H standard
- MVNOs
- Retail regulation
- The retail market
- Wholesale fixed regulation
- Narrowband voice interconnection
- Services subject to regulation
- Cost model for RIO
- VoIP
- Wholesale access
- Wholesale line rental
- Local loop unbundling
- Disputes over provisioning times
- Wholesale broadband services
- Fibre deployment
- Wholesale mobile regulation
- Regulation
- Services subject to regulation
- Mobile termination charges
- Mobile access
- Wireless local loop
- Competition cases
- Antitrust authorities allow DVB-H joint venture
- Universal service
- Universal service obligation
- Appendix
- The EC’s market definitions
- List of Tables
- Table 1: 3G licensed operators
- Table 2: Fixed sector: services subject to regulation
- Table 3: Mobile sector: services subject to regulation
- Table 4: The EC’s definition of seven markets to be analysed
- List of Figures
- Figure 1: Fixed-line connections in Germany
- Figure 2: Broadband access lines in Germany
- Figure 3: Mobile subscribers in Germany
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