registration document France Telecom 2009 - Orange.com

6 OVERVIEW
overview of the group’s business
OF BUSINESS
United Kingdom
Ofcom have reported that the mobile market in the UK was
effi cient, with effective competition driving usage by consumers,
using more text and data services, as well as adopting mobile
Internet . These factors have promoted the development of
innovation, particularly of devices offering greater functionality
while costing less.
Ofcom have further reported that bundled services are ever
more increasing in popularity allowing UK consumers to obtain
at a lesser cost two or more services from one provider such
as mobile telephony (and/or fi xed line telephone services) and
broadband Internet .
Fixed Telephony Market
2009e 2008 2007
Revenues (in millions of pounds) (1) 11,124 10,936 10,744
o/w PSTN access (1) 5,048 5,238 5,293
o/w PSTN communications (3) 4,166 4,412 4,768
o/w VoIP access (1) 31 43 57
o/w VoIP communications (1) 1,880 1,243 627
Number of lines (in millions) 41.2 39.3 36.6
PSTN access (1) 31.1 31.6 32.1
VoIP access (1) 10.0 7.6 4.4
o/w VoIP only (3) 2.3 1.8 1.2
Traffic
Traffi c (PSTN millions of minutes) (2) 134,597 144,039 161,275
AUPU (minutes per month) 335 360 403
Sources:
(1) Yankee Group , Dec. 09
(2) Ofcom, Feb. 10
(3) InfoCom, Sept. 09
In 2009, the number of public switched telephone network
(PSTN) subscriptions represented 51.6% of the population, a
decline of 1.0%, which had also been noted in 2008.
The decline in fi xed traffi c due to the increase of mobile usage
for calls and messages was limited to 6.6% in 2009, after a
decline of 10.7% in 2008 which was the largest decline of
European countries (Spain, Italy, France, UK and Germany).
VoIP (voice over IP) is driving the telephony market growth
thanks to the increase in the number of users and the increase
in VoIP ARPU by 34% from £6.75 in 2008 to £9.05 in 2009.
The total PSTN revenues fell by 4.5% in 2009 and 4.1% in 2008
due to the evolution in the market towards lower rates and plans
in order to retain fi xed-line subscribers and develop usage.
Internet on the Fixed Network Market
2009e 2008 2007
Broadband revenues (in millions of pounds) 5,007 4,739 4,235
Number of subscribers (in millions) (1) 19.1 18.3 17.1
Narrowband (2) 0.7 1.0 1.6
Broadband (1) 18.4 17.2 15.6
o/w ADSL (1) 14.5 13.6 12.2
o/w Cable and others (Sat and WiMax) (1) 3.9 3.7 3.4
Broadband ARPU (pounds per month) 23.4 24.1 24.7
IPTV subscribers (in millions) (1) 0.2 0.2 0.2
% of lPTV over ADSL accesses 1.1% 1.2% 1.3%
Sources:
(1) Yankee Group , Dec. 09
(2) Point Topic Ltd, Aug. 09
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