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The German mobile market has 186 different brands offered by 120 companies, following the launch of the first MVNO, Tchibo Mobil, in October 2004, according to a study by research group Wi-mobile. The study also found that one third of the mobile users is customer of a MVNO or mobile service provider leaving two thirds as direct customers of one of the four mobile operators E-Plus, O2 Germany, T-Mobile Germany and Vodafone Germany. Of the MVNO customers, 39 percent uses the network of E-Plus, 27 percent uses the network of Vodafone, 24 percent uses the network of T-Mobile and only 12 percent uses O2‘s network.Blau.de tops mobile service provider Study
Research: View a Brief Overview on the German Telecommunications Overview or Access our Documents & Resources. For further information, go-to Bundesnetzagentur, the German Telecom Regulator. It is also recommended that you review OFCOM, the UK Telecommunications Regulator Report; International Communications Market Report 2010 (pdf) which has interesting insight on the German Telecommunications Market.
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This is an updated and fairly comprehensive listing for MVNOs (Mobile Virtual Network Operators) in Germany today. We have listed most known and Active German MVNO/SP/BR’S & ESP’s companies (where possible).
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Going forward, it is likely that strong prepaid customer growth will continue to characterise the German mobile market. One of the phenomena which are responsible for this trend is the high number of mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) in the sector. In October 2010, the mobile market saw the arrival of two new MVNOs: Turkey’s largest mobile operator Turkcell plans to offer mobile services in partnership with Deutsche Telekom, while German cable operator Kabel BW has partnered with Telefonica O2 for the launch of its MVNO offering. Germany’s network operators include the customers of MVNOs using their network when reporting their own subscriber totals.
In our previous update, we noted that three of Germany’s mobile network operators – Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone and O2 – were awarded new mobile frequencies in the 800MHz spectrum range in May 2010. Since then, all three operators have begun deploying Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks, with a view to extending mobile broadband services to remote parts of Germany. In November 2010, Vodafone announced it had deployed LTE technology in nine locations in four federal states. The operator plans to cover around 1,500 communities via the 4G mobile broadband network by the end of March 2011. In September 2010, Telefonica O2 announced the launch of its first pilot LTE network in Munich.
Meanwhile, Deutsche Telekom is working with Nokia Siemens Networks for the deployment of its LTE network; the incumbent operator planned to launch its network before the end of 2010. Although our internet user forecast for Germany remains broadly unchanged this quarter, we have upwardly revised our estimate for the number of broadband subscribers in the country. The main reason for our higher estimate is the incorporation into our forecasts of new data for the number of mobile broadband subscribers. These are broadband subscribers who use netbooks, smartphones and USB sticks to connect to the internet wirelessly via a high-speed (3G/HSPA) network. We estimate that Germany had 27.38mn broadband subscribers at the end of 2009, equivalent to a penetration rate of 33.4%.
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