Analyse the Telecom Market in Luxembourg.DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c71806) has announced the addition of "Luxembourg - Key Statistics, Telecom Market & Regulatory Overviews" to their offering. Luxembourg has the highest mobile penetration rate in Europe, while broadband take-up is on a par with the EU average. Although the market was liberalised in 1998, the country has been slow to implement regulatory reform. The incumbent, P&T Luxembourg, still dominates all market sectors. Broadband take-up developed in earnest from 2002 with improved DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary infrastructure and the launch of the first digitised cable modem services. P&T's monopoly of 3G services, launched in 2003, was short-lived, with competing services soon opened by Tango and Lux Communications. This report analyses the major aspects of the telecoms market in Luxembourg in 2007, providing statistics for the fixed telephony, mobile, Internet, broadband and TV sectors, including broadband forecasts to 2015. Additional information is provided on the key regulatory issues, noting the status of interconnection, Local Loop Unbundling Local loop unbundling (LLU) is the regulatory process of allowing multiple telecommunications operators use of connections from the telephone exchange's central office to the customer's premises. , number portability and carrier preselection. Topics Covered: Synopsis Key statistics Telecommunications market Overview of Luxembourg's telecom market Regulatory environment History EU regulatory framework Regulatory authorities Ministry of Communications Luxembourg Regulations Institute (ILR ILR Industrial and Labor Relations (Cornell University school) ILR Institute for Legal Reform ILR Indefinite Leave to Remain (United Kingdom) ILR Institute for Learning in Retirement ) Telecom sector liberalisation in Luxembourg Interconnect Access Number portability Carrier PreSelection (CPS) Fixed network operators in Luxembourg P&T Luxembourg Cegecom Tele2 Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Telecommunications infrastructure National telecom network Broadband and Internet market Overview Broadband statistics Broadband forecasts to 2015 Scenario 1 - stronger broadband subscriber growth Scenario 2 - weaker broadband subscriber growth Cable modems Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line See DSL. (communications, protocol) Digital Subscriber Line - (DSL, or Digital Subscriber Loop, xDSL - see below) A family of digital telecommunications protocols designed to allow high speed data communication over the existing copper telephone lines between end-users and (ADSL See DSL. ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line ) Wireless broadband Wireless Local Loop (WLL See wireless local loop and PHS-WLL. ) WLAN/WiFi Internet via satellite Convergence Overview of media convergence Digital TV (DTV (Digital TeleVision) Transmitting TV using digital signals. The major DTV standards are ATSC (North America), DVB (Europe) and ISDB (Japan). All three use MPEG-2 video compression and Dolby Digital audio compression. DVB and ISDB also include MPEG audio compression. ) TV-over-DSL (IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) Also called "TV over IP," IPTV delivers scheduled TV programs and video-on-demand (VOD) via the IP protocol and digital streaming techniques used to watch video on the Internet. ) Cable TV Satellite TV RTL Group SES Astra Mobile communications Overview of Luxembourg's mobile market Mobile statistics Regulatory issues Spectrum regulations and spectrum auctions Fixed-to-mobile call charges Mobile Number Portability Mobile Number Portability (MNP) enables mobile telephone users to retain their mobile telephone numbers when changing from one mobile network operator to another. MNP is implemented in different flavours across the globe. (MNP) Roaming Bundling Mobile technologies Digital Third Generation (3G) mobile Major mobile operators LuxGSM Tango LuxCommunications Mobile data services Multimedia Messaging Service See MMS. BlackBerry Mobile TV Related reports For more information, visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c71806 |
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