This annual report provides a comprehensive overview of trends and developments in Spain?s telecommunications market.

The report analyses trends and developments in telecommunications, mobile, Internet, broadband, digital TV and converging media including VoIP, VoD and IPTV developments.

Subjects include:

* Key statistics;
* Market and industry overviews;
* Industry and regulatory issues;
* Major players (fixed, mobile and broadband);
* Mobile voice and data markets;
* Internet and broadband development;
* Convergence (voice/data, fixed/wireless/mobile);
* Telecom market forecasts for selective years to 2015 or 2019.

Executive Summary

Annual publication, Spain – Telecoms, IP Networks, Digital Media and Forecasts, provides a comprehensive overview of the trends and developments in the telecommunications and digital media markets in Spain.

Spain?s telecom market is one of the largest in Europe, accounting for around 4% of the country?s GDP. The market?s value fell by about 5.4% in 2009, to some ?41.7 billion, largely due to the continuing economic crisis which has severely dampened consumer spend in all sectors. It is unlikely to show real growth until 2011. Sector investment has also hit hard: the crisis of liquidity reduced investment by 15% in 2008, while a continuing lack of confidence in the markets reduced it by a further 17% in 2009. This has had knock-on effects on many levels, leading to operators being unable to fulfil their network upgrade commitments and to downsize their targets.

Of total turnover, the fixed-line sector accounted for about ?6.2 billion and the mobile sector for about ?14.6 billion: the fixed-voice sector continues to shrink as VoIP and mobile services gain in popularity, while almost half of fixed telephone lines are now bundled with other services, especially broadband. This bundling has enabled alternative operators to gain market share. The broadband sector has been the catalyst for the market?s main activity – together with data traffic on mobile networks, these were the only areas that have shown positive growth.

Despite economic difficulties, Spain continues to pursue one of Europe?s more ambitious telecom infrastructure schemes ? the second phase of the national Avanza Plan, to run through to 2012, will provide further impetus to R&D investment and increase the volume of economic activity relating to the use of ICTs. The Plan has thus far been allocated about ?6.6 billion in public funds.

The regulator expected that about half of households will be served by FttH within the next 10-12 years, with most accesses provided by Telef?nica and alternative operators to which Telef?nica must provide network access. The regulator is ambitious in its expectation of the number of competitors which will service urban areas, and since no significant operator presence is expected in regions with fewer than 5,000 people it must anticipate contributing substantial public funds.

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