1. Key statistics
1.1 Country overview
2. Telecommunications market
2.1 Market analysis
3. Regulatory environment
3.1 Historical overview
3.2 Regulatory authority
3.3 Telecom sector liberalisation
3.4 Interconnect
3.5 Access
3.6 Number Portability (NP)
3.7 Carrier PreSelection (CPS)
4. Fixed network operators
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Telecom Italia (TIM)
4.3 Wind Tre
4.4 BT Italia
4.5 Tiscali
4.6 Fastweb
5. Telecommunications infrastructure
5.1 Overview of the national telecom network
5.2 International
5.2.1 Submarine cable networks
5.2.2 Satellite networks
5.3 Infrastructure developments
5.3.1 Next Generation Network (NGN)
5.4 Smart infrastructure
5.4.1 Smart Cities
5.4.2 Smart meters
6. Broadband market
6.1 Introduction and statistical overview
6.1.1 Broadband statistics
6.1.2 Government support
6.1.3 National Broadband Plan
6.2 Forecasts – broadband subscribers – 2019; 2021; 2023
6.3 Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) networks
6.4 Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) networks
6.4.1 Telecom Italia
6.4.2 Fastweb
6.4.3 Tiscali
6.4.4 Wind Tre
6.4.5 Vectoring DSL
6.5 Fibre-to-the-Premises (FttP) networks
6.5.1 Introduction
6.5.2 Telecom Italia
6.5.3 Fastweb
6.5.4 Other networks
6.5.5 Other developments
6.6 Other fixed broadband services
7. Mobile communications
7.1 Market analysis
7.2 Mobile statistics
7.2.1 General statistics
7.2.2 Operator market shares
7.3 Mobile infrastructure
7.3.1 Digital networks
7.3.2 Other infrastructure developments
7.4 Mobile voice
7.5 Mobile data
7.5.1 Short Messaging Service (SMS)
7.5.2 Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS)
7.5.3 Mobile broadband
7.6 Regulatory issues
7.6.1 Spectrum regulations and spectrum auctions
7.6.2 Roaming
7.6.3 Network sharing
7.6.4 Mobile Number Portability (MNP)
7.6.5 Mobile Termination Rates (MTRs)
7.7 Major mobile operators
7.7.1 Wind Tre (3 Italia/Wind)
7.7.2 TIM
7.7.3 Vodafone Italy
7.7.4 Iliad
7.7.5 MVNOs
7.8 Mobile content and applications
7.8.1 Mobile banking/ticketing
7.8.2 Payment services
7.8.3 Machine-to-Machine (M2M)
Table 1 – Top Level Country Statistics and Telco Authorities - Italy – 2018 (e)
Table 2 – Fixed and mobile market investment – 2004 - 2015
Table 3 – Share of fixed-line and mobile sector investment by operator – 2010 - 2015
Table 4 – Fixed and mobile market revenue – 2010 - 2017
Table 5 – Fixed market revenue by type – 2016 - 2017
Table 6 – Telecom Italia wholesale access lines – 2007 - 2018
Table 7 – Fixed number portings – 2010 - 2015
Table 8 – Telecom Italia fixed network revenue by sector (old reporting) – 2006 - 2012
Table 9 – Telecom Italia domestic revenue by sector – 2012 - 2018
Table 10 – Telecom Italia Group financial data – 2005 - 2018
Table 11 – Telecom Italia domestic revenue – 2005 - 2018
Table 12 – Telecom Italia accesses by sector – 2006 - 2018
Table 13 – Wind subscribers by sector – 2006 - 2018
Table 14 – Wind annualised fixed-line ARPU – 2006 - 2018
Table 15 – Wind financial data – 2006 - 2018
Table 16 – Wind Tre fixed-line revenue – 2015 - 2018
Table 17 – Tiscali subscribers (Italy) – 2007 - 2017
Table 18 – Tiscali revenue by sector – 2006 - 2017
Table 19 – Tiscali financial data – 2008 - 2017
Table 20 – Fastweb financial data (€) – 2005 - 2009
Table 21 – Fastweb financial data (CHF) – 2008 - 2018
Table 22 – Fastweb financial data (CHF) – 2008 – 2018
Table 23 – Fixed-line accesses (Telecom Italia and altnets) – 2008 - 2018
Table 24 – Fixed-line in service and teledensity – 2008 - 2018
Table 25 – Fixed-line accesses by type – 2013 - 2017
Table 26 – Fixed-line access market share by operator – 2010 - 2018
Table 27 – International internet bandwidth – 2005 - 2016
Table 28 – NGA lines and proportion of total lines – 2011 - 2016
Table 29 – Historic - Internet subscribers and penetration rate – 1991 - 2009
Table 30 – Internet subscribers and penetration rate – 2010 - 2018
Table 31 – Total fixed retail broadband subscribers by access type – 2002 - 2018
Table 32 – Broadband penetration by technology – 2004 - 2017
Table 33 – Broadband market share of subscribers by operator – 2009 - 2018
Table 34 – Proportion of broadband connections by speed – 2009 - 2018
Table 35 – Broadband lines by speed – 2010 - 2018
Table 36 – Forecast broadband subscribers – 2019; 2021; 2023
Table 37 – Ultra-fast broadband lines (above 30Mb/s) in service – 2013 - 2018
Table 38 – DSL subscribers – 2002 - 2018
Table 39 – Fixed-line broadband market share by operator – 2011 - 2018
Table 40 – Telecom Italia broadband subscribers by sector – 2006 - 2018
Table 41 – Telecom Italia broadband ARPU – 2006 – 2018
Table 42 – Telecom Italia internet revenue – 2007 - 2018
Table 43 – Fastweb broadband subscribers – 2005 - 2018
Table 44 – Tiscali broadband subscribers – 2007 - 2017
Table 45 – Tiscali financial data – 2008 - 2017
Table 46 – Wind Tre broadband subscribers – 2005 - 2018
Table 47 – Fibre broadband lines – 2013 - 2017
Table 48 – Altnet fibre broadband lines – 2012 - 2017
Table 49 – Fastweb broadband subscribers – 2015 - 2018
Table 50 – Vodafone fixed-line broadband subscribers – 2014 - 2018
Table 51 – Fixes Wireless Access (FWA) subscribers– 2013 - 2018
Table 52 – Historic - Mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 1995; 1997; 1999 - 2009
Table 53 – Mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 2010 - 2019
Table 54 – Mobile subscribers and penetration (excluding M2M) – 2013 - 2019
Table 55 – Mobile market revenue – 2008 – 2017
Table 56 – Mobile device and service price index – 2013 - 2018
Table 57 – Mobile market share of subscribers by operator – 2004 - 2018
Table 58 – Prepaid and contract cards in service – 2009 - 2018
Table 59 – Proportion of prepaid and contract cards in service – 2010 - 2018
Table 60 – TIM LTE subscribers – 2015 - 2018
Table 61 – M2M connections – 2013 - 2017
Table 62 – SMS/MMS and other data revenue – 2008 - 2013
Table 63 – SMS traffic – 2008 - 2018
Table 64 – Mobile data traffic – 2008 - 2018
Table 65 – Average data per SIM card per month – 2012 - 2018
Table 66 – Vodafone SMS traffic – 2014 - 2016
Table 67 – Active mobile broadband subscribers – 2008 - 2018
Table 68 – Wind Telecom mobile internet subscribers – 2012 - 2016
Table 69 – Wind Telecom mobile internet revenue – 2013 - 2016
Table 70 – TIM mobile internet subscribers – 2013 - 2018
Table 71 – European roaming charges – 2007 – 2016
Table 72 – European data roaming charges – 2014 - 2017
Table 73 – Cumulative mobile numbers ported – 2003 – 2018
Table 74 – Annual mobile numbers portings – 2002 – 2018
Table 75 – Historic - Wind mobile registered subscriber statistics – 2005 - 2015
Table 76 – Wind Tre registered mobile subscribers – 2008 - 2018
Table 77 – 3 Italia (Wind Tre) active mobile subscribers – 2012 - 2018
Table 78 – 3 Italia (Wind Tre) annualised ARPU – 2008 - 2018
Table 79 –Wind Tre operational statistics and mobile revenue – 2005 – 2018
Table 80 – Wind annualised mobile ARPU – 2005 - 2017
Table 81 – Wind Tre mobile revenue – 2008 - 2018
Table 82 –Wind Tre mobile EBITDA, capex – 2011 - 2018
Table 83 – TIM mobile subscribers – 2005 - 2018
Table 84 – TIM mobile revenue by sector – 2008 - 2018
Table 85 – Vodafone subscribers – 2001 - 2018
Table 86 – Vodafone fixed-line revenue by sector – 2010 - 2019
Table 87 – Vodafone mobile service revenue by sector – 2010 - 2019
Table 88 – Vodafone prepaid, contract and blended ARPU (€) – 2004 - 2018
Table 89 – Vodafone mobile customer cost – 2007 - 2018
Table 90 – MVNO mobile subscribers – 2008 - 2018
Table 91 – Tiscali mobile subscribers – 2013 - 2017
Table 92 – Fastweb mobile subscribers – 2016 - 2018
Table 93 – MVNO market share of MVNO subscribers – 2010 - 2018
Table 94 – M2M connections – 2013 - 2018
Chart 1 – Fixed and mobile market investment – 2004 - 2015
Chart 2 – Total fixed and mobile market revenue – 2010 - 2017
Chart 3 – Telecom Italia wholesale access lines – 2007 - 2018
Chart 4 – Telecom Italia domestic revenue by sector – 2012 - 2018
Chart 5 – Telecom Italia Group financial data – 2006 - 2018
Chart 6 – Telecom Italia domestic revenue – 2005 - 2018
Chart 7 – Telecom Italia accesses by sector – 2006 - 2018
Chart 8 – Wind subscribers by sector – 2006 – 2018
Chart 9 – Wind financial data – 2006 – 2018
Chart 10 – Tiscali revenue by sector – 2006 - 2017
Chart 11 – Tiscali financial data – 2008 - 2017
Chart 12 – Fixed-line accesses (Telecom Italia and altnets) – 2008 – 2018
Chart 13 – Fixed-line in service and teledensity – 2008 – 2018
Chart 14 – Fixed-line access market share by operator – 2010 – 2018
Chart 15 – Internet subscribers and penetration rate – 2002 - 2018
Chart 16 – Total fixed broadband subscribers by access type – 2005 – 2018
Chart 17 – Broadband market share of subscribers by operator – 2009 – 2018
Chart 18 – Fixed-line broadband market share by operator – 2011 – 2018
Chart 19 – Telecom Italia broadband subscribers by sector – 2006 - 2018
Chart 20 – Mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 2013 - 2019
Chart 21 – Mobile market revenue – 2008 - 2017
Chart 22 – Mobile market share of subscribers by operator – 2004 – 2018
Chart 23 – Active mobile broadband subscribers – 2008 – 2018
Chart 24 – 3 Italia mobile subscribers – 2008 - 2018
Chart 25 – 3 Italia annualised ARPU – 2008 – 2018
Chart 26 – TIM annualised ARPU – 2005 – 2018
Chart 27 – TIM revenue by sector, annual change – 2008 – 2018
Chart 28 – Vodafone prepaid, contract and blended ARPU (€) – 2004 - 2018
Exhibit 1 – Access and the local loop
Exhibit 2 - Principal backbone providers
Exhibit 3 – WiMAX licensees – 2010
Exhibit 4 – UMTS auction results – 2000
Exhibit 5 – UMTS auction results – 2009
Exhibit 6 – Spectrum allocations at auction – 2011
Exhibit 7 – Total spectrum outlay by operator – 2011
Exhibit 8 – 3 Italia spectrum concessions