Definitions of the Telecommunication indicators
used in the EUROSTAT telecommunications inquiry
Table 1 – Operators
(Unit: number (NBR))
Number of active operators (only active) offering publicly available telephone services in
fixed or mobile network including managed VoIP. Publicly available telephone services are
available to the general public for initiating and receiving national and international calls and
access to emergency call services. Managed VoIP is a publicly available telephone service,
which has to include access to emergency call services, provided through an IP network,
whereby the operator controls the quality of service. Unmanaged VoIP and peer-to-peer
services are not included. Operator here refers to providers of the service and should be
distinguished from the enterprise. Reference time is the end of the year.
T700
TOTAL NUMBER OF FIXED NETWORK OPERATORS
(new)
Total number of fixed network operators.
T7011 FACILITIES BASED OPERATORS
(new)
Number of fixed network operators connecting the customers directly over their own
infrastructure. (Including cable operators and ULL.
T704
MOBILE NETWORK OPERATORS
Number of mobile network operators offering publicly available telephone services
(operators with own a network).
T7041 MOBILE VIRTUAL OPERATORS
Number of mobile service providers offering publicly available telephone services in
virtual network or as resale (operators which do not own a mobile network).
T7042 MOBILE BROADBAND OPERATORS
Number of mobile network operators (including mobile service providers) offering
broadband services via 3G mobile networks (UMTS, Wideband CDMA) or
compatible high-speed mobile networks (IMT-2000).
T705
CABLE OPERATORS
Number of cable network operators offering interactive electronic communication
services such as internet, publicly available telephone services or other data services.
Operators providing only television programme distribution are not included.
T706
INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS
Number of internet service providers (retail only) including fixed wireless access
providers and excluding mobile broadband service providers.
T707
SATELLITE OPERATORS
Number of operators providing interactive satellite electronic communication
services such as internet, publicly available telephone services or other data services.
Operators providing only television programme distribution are not included.
Table 2 - Employment
(person-years in Full Time Equivalents (FTE) and numbers)
T101
NUMBER OF EMPLOYED PERSONS (FTE)
Staff employed by telecommunication operators or parts of enterprises that provide
telecommunication services, facilities based or resale, and other telecommunication
service providers, expressed in full-time equivalents. Part-time staff should be
included in full-time equivalents. The conversion should be carried out on the basis
of the number of hours, days, weeks or months worked.
T1011 NUMBER OF EMPLOYED PERSONS (NBR)
Average-of-the-year staff employed by telecommunication operators or parts of
enterprises that provide telecommunication services, facilities based or resale, and
other telecommunication service providers, expressed in absolute numbers. Parttime staff should be included as number of persons.
Table 3 - Investment
(Unit: collected in Mio. National Currency, published in Mio. Euro)
T201
Investment in tangible goods
Total gross tangible investment for acquiring property (land or buildings) and plant
(e.g. switching equipment, computer hardware and software, office machinery,
motor vehicles).
T202
Investment in intangible goods
Acquisition of licences, patents, property rights, capitalised research and marketing
efforts and other intangible objects.
Table 4 - Turnover
(Unit: collected in Mio. National Currency, published in Mio. Euro)
T301
TOTAL TURNOVER
Total turnover are revenues from providing electronic communication services
during the financial year under review. Retail as well as wholesale revenues should
be included. Any revenues from non-electronic communication services should be
excluded. The sub-items do not have to add up to total turnover, as all possible
sources of revenue are not covered.
T302
REVENUES FROM LEASED LINES
Revenues from the provision of leased lines (private circuits) on retail and wholesale
market. Leased line is a service providing point-to-point data transfer with a constant
bit-rate.
T303
REVENUES FROM FIXED NETWORKS
Revenues from the provision of telecommunication services in the fixed networks,
excluding leased lines.
T304
Revenues from mobile networks
Revenues from the provision of cellular mobile telecommunications services (incl.
mobile broadband and data services broad- and narrowband).
T305
Revenues from interconnection services
Revenues from the provision of interconnection services i.e. services provided by
one telecommunications organisation to another for the purpose of the conveyance
of messages and information between the two systems and including any auxiliary
services not elsewhere specified.
T306
Revenues from provision of Internet services
Revenues from the provision of Internet services (subscriptions, traffic, data
communication; provision of access lines excluded).
T307
REVENUES FROM EXTERNAL SERVICES
Revenues collected for other service providers for goods and services they have
provided, for instance data transfer, information services, catalogues, hosting of web
sites, call centres.
T308
Revenues from international roaming
Retail revenues from international roaming of own customers in foreign networks
(outbound roaming).
Table 5 - Traffic
(1000 minutes)
T500
TOTAL OUTGOING TRAFFIC OF ALL NETWORKS
(new)
Sum of duration of national and international calls in fixed to mobile networks,
including managed VoIP.(T501+T504+T505+T506+ T513+T404).
T501
NATIONAL CALLS
Sum of local and national long distance calls in fixed networks.
T504
MOBILE CALLS
Total of calls in cellular mobile networks, including telephony over the mobile
broadband networks, specified to calls within one operator’s networks (on-net calls),
to another operator’s networks (off-net calls) and calls to fixed networks.
International calls should be excluded here (Table 8).
T505
CALLS TO INTERNET
Minutes of dial-up connection to Internet (narrowband).
T506
Fixed to mobile
Calls from fixed to mobile networks
T507
MOBILE TO FIXED
Calls from mobile to fixed networks.
T508
WITHIN MOBILE
Calls within one mobile operator’s networks (on-net calls)
T509
MOBILE TO MOBILE
Calls from one mobile operator's networks to another mobile operator's networks
(off-net calls).
T513
VOIP
Calls using managed Voice over Internet Protocol telephony. A managed VoIP
service means a publicly available telephone service provided using VoIP for call
origination whereby the operator controls the quality of service provided. This
variable specifies the total VoIP traffic, which should also be included in T501,
T506, T403 and T404.
Table 6 - Data transfer, downloads of files
(GBytes)
T515
Data transfers in mobile networks
(T5041) Total volume of data transferred in the mobile networks. Data from subscriptions
used for advanced data services such as web/internet, online multiplayer games,
Video on Demand and other likely advanced data usage (excluding SMS, MMS,
WiFi, WiMAX).
Table 7 - Short Message Services (SMS)
(1000)
T510
SMS
Number of text messages sent, SMS “peer to peer”. Excludes messages sent by
machines to persons or machines.
T511
VALUE-ADDED SMS
Number of Value-added SMS sent or received. Added value SMS services include
general information such as Weather Forecasting, Traffic News, Stock Exchange
Reports, and Sport Results, as well as Advice and Entertainment services and
messages are sent to a user as part of these subscription-based services. The user is
charged a specific premium rate tariff for such value-added services.
T512
MMS
Number of Multimedia Messaging services. Excludes messages sent by machines to
persons.
Table 8 - International calls
(1000 minutes of connection)
T403
INTERNATIONAL INCOMING CALLS
International incoming calls terminated in national networks without transit,
including managed VoIP (total, all of the world).
T404
INTERNATIONAL OUTGOING CALLS
International outgoing calls originated from national networks, fixed and mobile,
including managed VoIP (total, all of the world).
T405
INTERNATIONAL ROAMING CALLS
Calls made and received by own customers in foreign networks (outbound roaming).
Retail international roaming minutes from own network subscribers roaming on
foreign networks abroad. Excludes calls from foreign of non-national users who are
not subscribers to domestic mobile networks and are temporarily roaming on
domestic mobile networks.
Table 9 - Infrastructure
(number of lines/subscriptions in the end of the reference year)
T601
Main telephone lines
A main line is a (fixed) telephone line connecting the subscriber's terminal equipment to
the public switched network and which has a dedicated port in the telephone exchange
equipment. This term is synonymous with the term main station or Direct Exchange Line
(DEL) that are commonly used in telecommunication documents. It may not be the same as
an access line or a subscriber. The number of ISDN channels should be included. Fixed
wireless subscribers should also be included. If not included, specify in a note. (ITU)
T6011
PSTN
Number of PSTN connections (network termination points at the end of the year. PSTN
Direct services are defined as a situation where a customer is directly connected to a
telecommunications operator which connects that customer to the public
telecommunications network. Indirect services are provided to customer by means of their
supplier's wholesale access to another operator's PSTN network infrastructure. The ISDN
subscriptions should not be included here.
T603
LEASED LINES
Leased line (also known as private circuit) is a service providing point-to-point data
transfer with a constant bit-rate. Retail and wholesale leased lines should be included.
T604
ISDN (NUMBER OF ISDN CONNECTIONS (NETWORK TERMINATION POINTS))
Number of access lines provided for the ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network)
Direct services, not specifying, whether basic or primary rate interface service: not number
channels. Direct services are defined as a situation where a customer is directly connected
to a telecommunications operator by a wire, fibre optic or radio link which connects that
customer to the public telecommunications network.
T605
xDSL line Internet subscriptions
Number of broadband (144 kbit/s or more) Digital Subscriber Line subscriptions (DSL),
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Lines (ADSL) or comparable lines.
T606
MOBILE SUBSCRIPTIONS
Subscriptions to public mobile telecommunication systems of cellular technology,
including number of pre-paid cards active during a period of 90 days, GSM, GPRS, NMT,
excluding 3G (UMTS) and HSDPA or mobile broadband subscriptions via data cards or
USB modems.
T607
INTERNET SUBSCRIPTIONS
Total number of fixed broadband Internet subscriptions and dial-up subscriptions (active
during a period of 90 days).
Includes T605, T608, T609, T614, T611)
T608
CABLE INTERNET SUBSCRIPTIONS
Number of Internet subscriptions to coaxial cable networks (e.g. cable TV network).
T615
FIBRE OPTIC CABLE
(new)
Number of Internet subscriptions to fiber optic cable networks (fibre to the home, fibre to
the building). Fibre to the home services access to the internet. This does not include shortrange technologies such as VDSL that extend out from the fibre connection. VDSL should
be included in xDSL Internet subscriptions.
T614
FIXED WIRELESS
Number of broadband subscriptions using fixed wireless access services (e.g. satellite,
WIFI, WIMAX, excluding occasional users at hotspots etc.).
T611
POWER LINE COMMUNICATION (PLC)
Number of subscriptions to the telecommunication networks through the electricity
networks, Power Line Communication.
T612
MOBILE BROADBAND SUBSCRIPTIONS
Subscriptions to public mobile telecommunication systems of cellular technology enabling
use of UMTS or comparable 3G network and which could be identified by the IMEI code.
T613
VOIP
Subscriptions to managed Voice over Internet Protocol telephony.