Mobile Telecom Market Italy

IK2514 - Wireless Infrastructure Deployment & Economics Alexandros Zografos2012-11-15

History

Vodafone

Omnitel-Pronto Italia 1995

Omnitel-Vodafone 2001

Vodafone-Omnitel 2002

Vodafone 2003

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Started in 1994

Launched prepaid cards in 1996

SMS in 1997

SizeVodafone

8000 employees

30.47 million mobile SIM cards

2011 EBITDA: 4.048 million Euros

2011 Capex : 1 billion Euros

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84.000 employees (54.000 in Italy)

32.2 million mobile SIM cards

2011 EBITDA: 12.246 million Euros

2011 Capex : 6.095 million Euros

ServicesVodafone

LTE - 30 October '12 in Rome and Milan.

20 cities more in March '13

USB Dongles and one Tablet

€30 for 15GB per month.

NFC in 2013. Currently trial in Milan

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LTE – 7 November '12 in 4 cities

USB Dongles and on tablet

€34 for 20GB per month

SpectrumAuction in 2011 lead to €0,81/MHz/capita

800MHz and 2.6GHz bands

Network Sharing

Vodafone

And WIND Signed agreement with Metroweb to share latter's network in Milan and later in several cities. Commercial offers in December.