This Country Report provides a comprehensive overview of the key telecoms
market indicators and the major fixed and mobile players in France. It also
includes an analysis of the market outlook, which focuses on the following key
trends and emerging opportunities.
The launch in January 2012 of Free Mobile, France's fourth licensed MNO,
has shaken up the complacent French mobile market.
4G spectrum has been allocated and the three established MNOs have all
announced details of their LTE roll-out and launch schedules.
MNOs face pressure on their margins from the sharp successive reductions
in MTRs to January 2013 imposed by the regulator ARCEP.
Roll-outs of FTTx have been gathering pace, and a number of landmark deals
have been struck between operators to build fibre networks, but actual take-up
of superfast broadband has been relatively low.
All three established MNOs have introduced quadruple-play packages to make
use of their combined fixed and mobile network assets, and these are gaining
in popularity.
The data annex
The data annex was updated on 3 April 2012 with 4Q 2011 data.
Analysys Mason's country report data annexes provide a range of key metrics
for each country's telecoms market. Full-year historical figures are supplied
for each year since 1999, alongside quarterly figures for the current calendar
year. Metrics include the following.
Fixed telecoms market
Connections
PSTN
ISDN
VoBB
broadband (split by access technology: DSL, cable modem, FTTH/B, FWA and
other)
households with voice
household penetration (for voice and broadband)
population penetration (broadband)
unbundled local loops
main lines digitalised (as a percentage of total narrowband lines).
Revenue
service revenue, including nominal growth, revenue per connection per
month, and the incumbent's share of revenue
retail revenue ('spend') - defined as service revenue minus wholesale
revenue - as a percentage of GDP, per capita per year and per connection per
month.
Traffic
fixed-originated minutes.
Operator-level metrics/market share
broadband subscribers by major broadband operator (and associated market
shares and year-on-year changes)
DSL connections (total and the incumbent's share).
Mobile telecoms market
Connections (total and split by prepaid and contract)
penetration (total)
percentage of activity (total and split by prepaid and contract)
3G and above (as a percentage of total).
Revenue
service revenue (total and split by prepaid and contract)
ARPU (total, prepaid and contract)
data revenue (as a percentage of service revenue)
retail revenue ('spend'), also as a percentage of GDP and per capita per
year.
Traffic
mobile-originated minutes.
Operator-level metrics/market share
active subscribers (and associated market share)
proportion of prepaid accounts
ARPU (total, prepaid and contract)
service revenue
data revenue (as a percentage of service revenue).
France country report 2012 published by Analysys Mason in June 1, 2012. This report price starts from US $ 999.
