Broadband Development in Republic of
Moldova
31 March – 1 April 2015,
ITU Regional Forum, Moldova
Roman BAHNARU
Deputy Chief Execution Regulation
Departament
roman.bahnaru@anrceti.md
www.anrceti.md
Chapter I – Regulation in Republic
of Moldova
Chapter II – Broadband Statistics
History
Information Society
BIG
Three
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Fixed
telephony
Technical View
Now 2015
I.1 National regulatory framework in a nutshell
Law on electronic communications nr. 241/2007
It transposes into the national legislation the provisions of the
regulatory framework for electronic communications
networks and services, adopted by
the European Union in 2002:
 Directive 21/2002/EC
 Directive 19/2002/EC
 Directive 20/2002/EC
 Directive 22/2002/EC
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Commission guidelines on market analisys
Recommendation 2003/311/EC
Recommendation 2007/879/EC
NGA Recommendation 2010/572/EU
I.2 Markets analyzed by the ANRCETI (4 markets) –
related to broadband
Market 4 - Wholesale network infrastructure access (including shared
or fully unbundled access) at a fixed location.
Market 5 - Wholesale broadband access.
Market 6 - Wholesale terminating segments of leased lines, irrespective
of the technology used to provide leased or dedicated capacity.
Market 8 - Wholesale trunk segments of leased lines.
Reference Offers for specific markets
Market 4
Reference Offer for Access, Reference Offer for Access to Ducts,
Reference Offer for Access to Pillars, Reference Offer for Colocation
Services
Market 5
Reference Offer for Bitstream
Market 6
Reference Offer for Leased Lines Services
Market 8
Reference Offer for Leased Lines Services
I.3 Access to, and use of, specific network facilities
This remedie is targeted at:
• Encouraging shared use and co-investments
• Encouraging the use of alternative
infrastructures for fiber deployment
• Mandating e ual a ess to SMP’s
infrastructure
• Access to fiber loops of the SMPs
• Access to FTTx loops as bit-stream
2.1 Broadband revenue (MDL): mobile and fixed
2011
2012
2013
2014
Revenue fixed broadband
540.236.600
652.578.643
785.261.930
927.657.696
Revenue mobile broadband:
256.355.767
383.431.766
407.898.597
482.159.803
from mobile voice users (addons)
103.294.833
113.533.803
148.219.189
190.880.955
from mobile dedicated users
153.060.934
269.897.963
259.679.408
291.278.849
796.592.367
1.036.010.409
1.193.160.526
1.409.817.499
Market share % fixed BB
67,8%
63,0%
65,8%
65,8%
Market share % mobile BB
32,2%
37,0%
34,2%
34,2%
Overall revenue: fixed and mobile
Overall revenue from:
mobile/fixed voice, mobile/fixed
BB and PayTV
6.219.748.857 6.282.166.707 6.642.559.735 6.801.702.820
118.80
144.68
obilă
2011
89.10
80.96
2012
77.20
76.54
Fixed voice
51.39
126.29
141.12
98.80
150.10
Mobile BB dedicated
2013
48.94
68.20
68.46
160.49
Fixed BB
2014
48.33
65.1
68.5
86.82
2.2 ARPU (MDL) - Mobile and Fixed Broadband
2010
58.78
180
150
120
90
60
30
0
154.05
Telefo ie
100.20
117.27
78.12
PayTV
40.97
2.3 Broadband subscriptions: mobile and fixed
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•
•
Basic broadband is available to all citizens in
Republic of Moldova, 99% is coverage for 3G
services, and 94% is coverage for fixed broadband;
As of December 2014, almost 33% was coverage
for 4G services offered by operators.
1,800
1,600
509.2
1,400
467.1
1,200
1,000
417.2
800
600
1/3 of population have Mobile BB subscription;
400
863.8
1,032.9
1,208.4
200
•
About 3/4 of households have Fixed BB
subscriptions (in which over a half are NGA
subscriptions – FTTB/FTTH or DOCSIS 3.0).
91%
2012
2013
Mobile BB subscriptions (active)
2014
Fixed BB subscriptions
Mobile and Fixed Broadband (BB) subscription %, 2012-2014
Mobile Broadband coverage, 2012-2014
99%
0
99%
99%
93%
94%
43.2%
46.3%
48.0%
33.9%
29.0%
50%
55%
60%
11.7%
28%
5.0%
2013
13.1%
14.3%
33%
16%
2012
24.3%
2014
Mobile BB coverage 3G
Fixed BB coverage, total
Mobile BB coverage 4G
NGA coverage* (aproximation)
2012
7.3%
2013
8.4%
2014
Mobile Internet subscriptions
Mobile BB subscriptions (active)
Fixed BB subscriptions
Dedicated mobile BB subscriptios
2.4 Fixed broadband by technology
100%
0.63%
2.80%
0.35%
0.32%
0.49%
0.34%
4.58%
5.63%
6.05%
7.04%
48.7%
44.5%
41.6%
61.2%
55.4%
45.4%
49.0%
51.0%
35.4%
39.7%
2012
2013
2014
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
2010
2011
FTTx
xDSL
DOCSIS
other
2.5 Internet users/household profile
•
About 3/4 of households are connected to Internet;
•
Over one half of total connections are connected by
PC;
•
1/3 of voice mobile users have smartphones
(or about 1/4 of citizens of Moldova);
•
80% of Internet users, use Internet daily;
Voice mobile users, possession of smartphones
have
smart
phon
e
do ’t 34%
have
smart
phone
66%
Usage of broadband
Household connection to Internet (%), type of device
Co
u i atio ( y Skype,…
82%
Social media
81%
News
No
28%
Yes
72%
noteb
ook
41%
PC
51%
tablet
8%
67%
Wheather
63%
Searching informations
61%
On-line video
58%
On-line music
58%
Email
Translate text
51%
37%
Download soft and games
29%
Online games
29%
2.6 Fast and ultrafast broadband
4.0%
>100 Mbps
30-100 Mbps
10-30 Mbps
18.8%
An estimated 18% of homes subscribe to fast and
ultrafast broadband
2-10 Mbps
< 2 Mbps
32.5%
8.1%
17.2%
Fast broadband (at least 30 Mbps) penetration (subscriptions as a % of population)
Source: Communications Committee CE, 2013
12.5%
IE
12.4%
BG HU UK LU
PT
DK RO LV
SE
10.5%
9.2%
PL
8.7%
FI
8.3%
DE EU
8.7%
CZ MT MD SK
8.3%
EE
6.7%
AT
5.6%
5.3%
5.2%
ES
6.3%
EL
4.6%
CY
4.4%
IT
4.3%
HR
3.9%
0.4%
2%
0.4%
4%
1.5%
6%
3.2%
8%
4.7%
10%
7.7%
12%
10.3%
14%
10.2%
16%
22.7%
18%
13.2%
20%
0.1%
•
36.5%
Fast broadband (>30 Mbps) is getting popular,
while ultrafast broadband (>100 Mbps) is still rare.
0.0%
•
0%
SI
FR
LT
NL
BE
2.7 Reasons for lack of Internet connection
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•
•
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•
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As mentioned by 66% of espo de ts ( ho a e ’t
connected), the main reason why their households
are not connected to Internet is that they do not
have computers.
About 18% of those who do not have Internet
connection reiterated that the service is too
expensive for them.
And only, about 4% said that there is no
possibility to get connected to the service at their
residential area.
Over half of respondents (54%) who do not have
computers in their households explained it by lack
of financial resources to purchase it (purchasing
power - affordability)
1/4 stated that they don't have anything to do with
a computer (digital literacy)
15% of respondents do not have the necessary
skills to use it (digital literacy)
Don't have a computer
66%
Internet is too expensive for us
Do ’t ha e a
o ile pho e o
to Internet
e ted
No possibility to get connected to
Internet
Speed of Internet available is too low
Other
DK/NR
18%
4%
4%
1%
5%
2%
Source: Centre for Electronic Governance, www.egov.md, 2013
Main reasons for the lack of computers in households, 2013
Do not have financial resources to buy
a computer
54%
Don't have anything to do with a
computer
25%
Do not have the necessary
knowledge/skills to use a computer
Do not have Internet connection,
do ’t k o ho else to use it
15%
2%
Do not need a computer at home as it
is used elsewhere
0.8%
Other
1.3%
DK/NR
1.6%
Source: Centre for Electronic Governance, www.egov.md, 2013
2.8 M2M communications
OTT, content and netneutrality regulations ???
BIG Three
Startups
Startups
Thank you!
Roman BAHNARU
Deputy Chief,
Execution Regulation Departament,
National Agency for Electronic
Communications an Information
Technology (ANRCETI), Republic of Moldova
E-mail: roman.bahnaru@anrceti.md