Slovenia Communication Profile 2012

Fixed Line Telecoms
Slovenia's communications market is dominated by the fixed-line incumbent, which is still majority owned by the state. Regulatory intervention is improving market conditions for competitors, with a May 2009 decision by the regulator reducing termination rates on the incumbent's network to significantly below the October 2008 EU average. T

he wholesale market is improving as evident by the increasing number of unbundled local loops, shared access and naked DSL lines. ICT penetration is increasing as businesses strive to improve productivity and healthy growth of ICT market segments such as outsourcing coupled with a fragmented IT services provider market has attracted the attention of the incumbent, which is under threat in its home market from falling fixed-line subscriptions and ARPU levels.

Mobile Market
Slovenia's mobile market is potentially one of the most competitive given that four mobile network operators and a number of mobile virtual network operators operate in a country with a potential market of only two million people.

With mobile SIM card penetration at saturation levels, established mobile network operators have shifted focus to defending market share from new market entrants and increasing Average revenue per user levels; encouraging prepaid users to take up postpaid services as well as encouraging spending and uptake in the underdeveloped mobile broadband and content market. 3G/HSDPA networks have been deployed to support delivery of mobile broadband services; competing network deployments have led to increased transfer speeds.