Research and Markets: Sweden - Telecoms, IP Networks, Digital Media and Forecasts Report 2011

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/c03c86/sweden_telecoms) has announced the addition of the "Sweden - Telecoms, IP Networks, Digital Media and Forecasts" report to their offering.

This report provides a comprehensive overview of trends and developments in Swedens telecommunications market. The report analyses the mobile, Internet, broadband, digital TV and converging media sectors. Subjects include:

• Market and industry analyses, trends and developments;
• Facts, figures and statistics;
• Industry and regulatory issues;
• Infrastructure;
• Major players, revenues, subscribers, ARPU, MoU;
• Internet, VoIP, IPTV;
• Mobile voice and data markets;
• Broadband (FttH, DSL, cable TV, wireless);
• Convergence and digital media;
• 3G subscriber and mobile ARPU forecasts to 2015;
• Broadband market forecasts for selective years to 2020.

Market Highlights:

Over half of all TV homes in Sweden have a cable TV connection. Com Hem, the countrys leading cable broadband and TV operator, was put up for sale by its owners at the end of 2010. The companys profitability and growing subscriber base will make this one of the key transactions in the sector in 2011. Around 95% of the operators network, passing some 1.76 million homes, can provide a 100Mb/s service, which should shield it from customer churn to the growing reach of fibre networks

The planned auction of the 800MHz frequency band in early 2011 will provide 15-year national licences free for mobile broadband services. Given that the 800MHz band is suitable for wide-area coverage in sparsely populated areas, the regulator has imposed coverage requirements on one of the licences for areas with poor broadband access. This will go some way to meeting the objectives of the governments Broadband Strategy programme. Sweden is also among the leading EU countries to assign 900MHz spectrum for 3G use.

Mobile data use has grown considerably since 2007, and is set to grow more rapidly during the next few years at TeliaSoneras LTE network expands to 28 or more of the principal cities. In addition, Net4Mobility (the joint project of Telenor and Tele20) launched commercial LTE offers in late 2010 and expected to cover 99% of the population by the end of 2012, providing speeds of up to 80Mb/s in rural areas and up to 150Mb/s in urban areas. Data traffic is expected to pass 50,000TB in 2012, compared to 13.7 in 2009.

Swedish municipal broadband has successfully adopted the stadsntt urban area network model, by which a city builds and administers fibre infrastructure which is then rented at cost price to service providers which set up their own transmission equipment. In Stockholm more than 30 organisations have built their facilities through the municipalitys open fibre network, operated by Stokab. The model has been adopted elsewhere in Europe, notably in the Netherlands, in a bid to extend fibre deeper into the regions.

This report is essential reading for those needing high level strategic information and objective analysis on the telecom sector in Sweden. It provides further information on:

• Market liberalisation and regulatory issues;
• The impact of the global economic crisis;
• Telecoms operators privatisation, acquisitions, new licences;
• Mobile data market developments in coming years in light of spectrum auctions and new license awards in 2010;
• 3G developments, regulatory issues and technologies including HSPA and LTE;
• Broadband migration to an FttH architecture;
• Historical and current subscriber statistics and forecasts;
• ARPU statistics and forecasts.

Data in this report is the latest available at the time of preparation and may not be for the current year.

Key Topics Covered:

1. Key statistics

2. Telecommunications Market 2.1 Overview of Swedens telecom market

3. Regulatory Environment 3.1 History 3.2 Regulatory authority 3.3 Telecom sector liberalisation in Sweden

4. Fixed Network Market 4.1 Overview of operators 4.2 TeliaSonera 4.3 Tele2 4.4 Telenor Sweden

5. Telecommunications Infrastructure 5.1 National telecom network 5.2 International infrastructure

6. Broadband Market 6.1 Overview 6.2 Government support 6.3 Broadband strategy 2010 6.4 Broadband strategy 2020 6.5 E-Government 6.6 E-Health 6.7 Competition 6.8 Broadband statistics 6.9 Cable 6.10 Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) 6.11 Fibre-to-the-Home (FttH) networks 6.12 Broadband Powerline (BPL) 6.13 Mobile broadband

7. Digital Media 7.1 Convergence 7.2 Digital TV

8. Mobile Communications 8.1 Overview of Swedens mobile market 8.2 Regulatory issues 8.3 Mobile technologies 8.4 Major mobile operators 8.5 Mobile voice services 8.6 Mobile Messaging 8.7 Mobile data services 8.8 Mobile content and applications

9. Forecasts 9.1 Forecasts broadband subscribers 2010 - 2013; 2020 9.2 Forecasts mobile ARPU 2009 - 2010; 2015 9.3 Forecasts UMTS subscribers 2010 - 2015

10. Glossary of Abbreviations

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KEYWORDS:   Europe  Sweden

INDUSTRY KEYWORDS:   Technology  Internet  Telecommunications  Mobile/Wireless

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