New Market Research Report: Hungary Telecommunications Report Q2 2011

April 2, 2011 - PRLog -- This quarter's update of the Hungarian telecoms market contains new data for the three mobile operators: Deutsche Telekom-owned and mobile market leader T-Mobile, second-ranked operator Telenor and thirdranked Vodafone, for the three month period ended September 2010. This enabled us to review our forecasts for the mobile sector. However, the national telecoms regulator has not yet updated its figures since our last quarterly report, although we introduced the latest data by incumbent operator Deutsche Telekom-owned Magyar Telekom for Q310.

While we noted that the biggest threat to the development of the telecoms sector came from the Hungarian government in the last quarter, this continues to be the case. Deutsche Telekom along with 12 other companies had filed a formal complaint to the European Commission (EC) in early January 2011 to investigate the crisis tax introduced in Hungary during October 2010. In a letter addressed to Jose Manuel Barroso, the EC president, companies urged him to "convince Hungary to withdraw its unfair taxes". In particular, we retain our concern over the development of the broadband market. Magyar Telekom is expected to pay HUF27.5bn (US$136.9mn) in the extra tax year this year, accounting for nearly half the HUF61bn the Hungarian government plans to collect in tax from the telecoms sector each year between 2010 and 2012.

However, there are signs of improvements occurring in the mobile market. For the first time in 2010 the country's operators noted an increase in the number of new subscribers added to the overall market. There were 13,000 net additions resulting in a total of 11.171mn subscribers by September 2010. This compared to a net loss of 45,000 and 20,000 in Q210 and Q110, respectively. While the earlier half of the year related to the removal of inactive subscribers, and which continued to be the case for Telenor in Q310, TMobile and Vodafone noted increases in their customer bases. We believe this relates to a return to growth following the removal of inactive subscribers as well as a recovery from the weak economy during 2009.

Although we are optimistic that the mobile market will experience subscriber growth overall during 2010, forecasting a 0.2% y-o-y increase (and largely led by T-Mobile) as compared to a net loss of 3.1% in the previous year, BMI is expecting slower growth as we expect to see inactive subscribers disconnected and as operators cannibalise their existing prepaid user bases for new postpaid customers.

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Partial Table of Contents:

SWOT Analysis
- Hungary Mobile Industry SWOT Analysis
- Hungary Fixed-Line And Internet SWOT Analysis
- Hungary Political SWOT
- Hungary Economic SWOT
- Hungary Business Environment SWOT
Business Environment
- Central And Eastern Europe
- Table: Central And Eastern Europe Business Environment Rankings
- Hungary
Industry Forecast Scenario
- Mobile
- Table: Telecoms Sector - Mobile - Historical Data & Forecasts
- Fixed Line
- Table: Telecoms Sector - Fixed Line - Historical Data & Forecasts
- Internet
- Table: Telecoms Sector - Internet - Historical Data & Forecasts
Market Data Analysis
- Mobile
- Table: Hungary - Mobile Market, Q310
- Table: Hungary - Mobile Market Net Additions, 2009-2010 ('000)
- Title: Telenor and T-Mobile ARPU (EUR)
- Subscriber Mix
- Table: Hungary - Mobile Market - Prepaid And Postpaid Subscribers, 2009-2010
- Mobile Contract Wins
- Table: Mobile Contract Wins
- Mobile Content
- Regional Outlook
- Country Outlook
- Value-Added Services Timeline
- Table: Selected VAS Services
- Mobile Operator Data
- Hungary: Mobile Market Overview
- Table: Telenor
- Table: T-Mobile
- Table: Vodafone
- Fixed Line
- Table: Magyar Telekom Consumer & Business Unit Voice Customers, Q209-Q310
- Internet
- Table: Mobile Broadband Coverage, June 2010
- Table: Magyar Telekom TV Subscribers
- Wireline (Fixed-Line & Broadband) Developments
- Table: Wireline Developments, 2008-2010
Regulatory Environment & Industry Developments
- Hungary: Regulatory Bodies And Their Responsibilities
- Recent Developments
Competitive Landscape
- Key Players
- Table: Key Players - Hungary Telecoms Sector
- Table: Selected Operators - Financial Indicators (US$mn)
Company Monitor
- Huawei
- Table: Huawei Technologies: CEE & CIS Contracts Awarded
- Much too much, much too young?
- Can there be smoke without fire?
Operator Profile
- Magyar Telekom
- Invitel Holdings (Previously HTCC)
- T-Mobile Hungary
- Telenor Hungary (Pannon GSM)
- Vodafone Hungary
Regional Telecommunications Penetration Overview
- Fixed Line
- Table: Regional Fixed-Line Penetration Overview
- Broadband
- Table: Regional Broadband Penetration Overview
- Mobile
- Table: Regional Mobile Penetration Overview
Country Snapshot: Hungary Demographic Data
- Section 1: Population
- Table: Demographic Indicators, 2005-2030
- Table: Rural/Urban Breakdown, 2005-2030
- Section 2: Education And Healthcare
- Table: Education, 2002-2005
- Table: Vital Statistics, 2005-2030
- Section 3: Labour Market And Spending Power
- Table: Employment Indicators, 2001-2006
- Table: Consumer Expenditure, 2000-2012 (US$)
- Table: Average Annual Wages, 2000-2012
Glossary Of Terms
- Table: Glossary Of Terms
BMI Methodology
- How We Generate Our Industry Forecasts
- Table: Key Indicators For Telecommunications Industry Forecasts
- Telecoms Business Environment Ratings
- Risk/Reward Ratings Methodology
- Table: Ratings Indicators
- Weighting
- Table: Weighting Of Indicators
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