Country Profile: AUSTRIA
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Table 2.10: Austria's broadband status |
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4Q00 |
1Q01 |
2Q01 |
3Q01 |
4Q01 |
1Q02 |
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Population |
8,211,000 |
8,211,000 |
8,211,000 |
8,211,000 |
8,211,000 |
8,211,000 |
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PSTN lines |
2,929,100 |
2,850,000 |
2,800,000 |
2,785,000 |
2,769,000 |
2,734,000 |
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ISDN lines |
339,900 |
356,000 |
376,000 |
395,000 |
404,000 |
417,800 |
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Internet subscribers |
2,100,000 |
2,300,000 |
2,400,000 |
2,520,000 |
2,600,000 |
2,640,000 |
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Total DSL subscribers |
38,500 |
50,500 |
69,600 |
73,200 |
102,100 |
122,380 |
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Total cable broadband subscribers |
54,000 |
90,000 |
122,000 |
140,000 |
160,000 |
180,000 |
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Total broadband subscribers |
92,500 |
140,500 |
191,600 |
213,200 |
262,100 |
302,380 |
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Note: figures refer to quarter end |
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Source: Broadband Subscriber Database |
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Figure 2.1: Telekom Austria's retail versus its wholesale DSL subs
Source: Broadband Subscriber Database
Figure 2.2: Telekom Austria's retail DSL subs versus CLECs' DSL subs
Source: Broadband Subscriber Database
Figure 2.3: Total DSL subs versus fixed lines
Source: Broadband Subscriber Database
Figure 2.4: Cable broadband subs as a percentage of cable TV subs
Source: Broadband Subscriber Database
Austria: Incumbent dominates DSL
Austria recorded overall broadband growth of 183 per cent in 2001, below the European average of around 300 per cent. DSL subscribers rose by 165 per cent over the year and cable broadband customers by 196 per cent; the majority of European markets saw a higher growth in DSL subscriptions. The number of PSTN lines in service has begun to fall in Austria but ISDN subscriptions continued to rise in 2001, increasing by nearly 20 per cent though this is a marked slowdown from the 35 per cent ISDN growth recorded in 2000.
By the end of 2001 the former incumbent Telekom Austria controlled 98.5 per cent of the country's 102,100 DSL subscribers. Of the 100,600 Telekom Austria connections, 87,900 were retail connections sold to subscribers of its own ISP - Jet2Web - while the remainder were sold via third party ISPs or operators. The remaining 1,500 DSL subscribers were connected by those CLECs that have secured ULL agreements with Telekom Austria; subscriptions sold by CLECs accounted for 1.5 per cent of Austria's total DSL subscribers. The monthly access fee for unbundled subscriber lines for alternative carriers is to fall from EUR11.6 to EUR10.9 during 2002 and this may help CLECs increase their presence in the DSL sector. At the end of 2001 around 55 per cent of Austrian households had access to DSL.
In the first quarter of 2002 Telekom Austria's DSL base rose by 19 per cent to 119,900 subscribers; 18,300 of these were sold wholesale.
TeleKabel, 95 per cent owned by United Pan-Europe Communications (UPC), controlled around 44 per cent of Austria's cable TV customers at end-2001 and is the country's biggest cable operator. It is also the market leader in terms of cable modem connections with 141,100 subscribers to its chello broadband services at the end of 2001, an increase of 43 per cent over the year, compared with a 3 per cent increase in its cable TV subscriptions.
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