Mobile Market Reports
This Report is based on the statutory quarterly data reporting by service providers with their own mobile telephony network, as well as by service providers with no own network who provide services on the basis of a contract concluded with an operator owning a network. Based on these service provider data, the Report presents quarterly trends in the main volume indicators for mobile telephony, mobile internet and mobile M2M services.
The aim of the Report is to ensure that the state of essentially the entire mobile market is presented. Although only the data for the most recent 16 quarters are available in the Report, the full time series (from Q4 2015 onwards) is downloadable in Excel format.
As the technical and economic evolution of mobile telephone services is very rapid, the scope of the data collected and analysed will inevitably change every few years. For example, the proportion of devices used on 5G networks has only been examined from 2021 onwards, while the volume of international calls initiated from mobile phones was only reported until the end of 2022 because by that time this type of calls had been almost entirely squeezed out of the market.
Fixed Market Reports
Fixed Market Reports are not based on a full set of data but only on data collected from service providers with at least 10,000 subscribers in at least one of the fixed internet, telephony or broadcasting markets.
As a consequence of this selective data collection, the results published in the Report may not match the data for the entire market. However, the weight of the approximately one and a half dozen larger service providers in question is so significant (varying from market to market, but generally covering 94 to 99% of the total market) that according to the laws of statistics, the overall picture would not differ substantially from the published data, even if data had been collected from the remaining several hundred smaller service providers.
The Report deliberately uses the designation “fixed” rather than “wired” in the title, in order to indicate that it includes all infocommunication services that are not part of the mobile market.
For example, television broadcasting can be provided via satellite or terrestrial broadcasting technologies, which are not wired but cannot be considered mobile services, as both require the use of a sizeable fixed antenna, meaning the service can only be used at a given location.
Similarly, some operators provide internet access over a Wi-Fi network, but this service can only be used within a small area near the point of service (usually in a particular municipality or part thereof); it is not mobile internet, which works anywhere.