Spain is the country extreme competitionin clients and infrastructures, three major European operators Dominating a market with hundreds of companies. telephone Leader ahead of the French company’s Spanish subsidiary in industry, customers and revenue Orange and from the British vodafone. All three are known as network operators because they hold so much power. distributed capacityIn the case of Telefónica this covers the entire region.
This distribution was made possible in addition to: workplace investmentsdue to the obligation of the national regulator, the National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC), Telefónica make the rest easy operators’ own access. civil works infrastructures (ducts, registers, manholes and posts) to deploy their own networks optical fiber. After deployment, the three companies must provide others access to their networks and hundreds of operators there is no network but this ‘rent’ The ability of large operators to serve their customers.
market fixed broadband Adds (Fixed Internet) total 17.12 million connections93.2% of them had equal or higher speed 100 megabits per second. 83.1% of these links are based on accesses from: fiberwhich led Spain to become an OECD European country higher percentagein the rear Korea (87%) and Japan (83%) and well above the OECD average (35%). Inside mobile have a total 59 million connections.
Other operators
MásMóvil is the disputed fourth operator, a ‘start-up’ founded in 2006 that uses ‘solutions’ implemented by the European Commission in 2016 to greenlight its merger with Orange Spain. and Jazztel. The Big Four took over 79.8% of retail revenue — compared to 85.6% in 2017 — and more 90% rows, fixed broadband (92%) and mobile (90.9%). Added to the big four is an emerging group of very active operators. smaller sizelike DIGI, Lyntia, Adamo and AvatelWith their respective network deployments in 2022, their levels coverage found still far levels reached by the first.
All falling apart, including the big four dozens of brands this leads to a busy situation trade war three levels: convergent offers (fixed and mobile), pay television (“premium”) and “low-cost” offers. Billing to end customer for all electronic and audio-visual communication services exceeded in 2022 24,000 million eurosincreased by 3.1% compared to the previous year, but the increase in electronic communication services was only 0.2%. Compared to the increase in fixed and mobile data traffic (42%) last year, the increase is even smaller.
Sector in full concentration – Following the emergence of a more powerful fourth operator following the merger between MásMóvil and Euskaltel in 2021– with the announcement of: Merger between Orange and MásMóvil will result in the emergence of a new leading operator in terms of connectivity in the fixed and mobile housing market. Movistar (Telefónica) will continue to lead in terms of revenue. European Commission It launched an in-depth investigation in March 2023. Brussels was scheduled to make its decision on the operation on September 4, but in mid-July, without waiting for a resolution date, it calmly announced that it had stopped time to look into the matter.