Spanish telecommunications revenues fell to EUR 8.59 billion in this year’s second quarter, compared to EUR 9.40 billion in the year-earlier period, according to national regulator CMT. Retail services generated revenues of EUR 7.20 billion, down 8.8 percent year-on-year, while wholesale services saw revenues of EUR 1.38 billion, down 7.6 percent from June 2011.
Within the retail market, fixed telephony revenues fell to EUR 1.20 billion from EUR 1.32 billion over the same period, and mobile revenues went down to EUR 3.06 billion versus EUR 3.37 billion in the year-earlier quarter. Fixed broadband revenues also declined to EUR 920 million from EUR 961 million, while TV revenues dropped to EUR 979 million from EUR 1.08 billion. There were 19.40 million fixed telephony lines in service at end-June, including 12.92 million residential lines and 6.48 million business lines. Telefonica de Espana ended June with 7.2 million fixed telephony residential customers, followed by Ono with 1.8 million, Jazztel (1.2 million), Orange (1 million) and Vodafone (916,811).
Spain had 54.9 million mobile lines and datacards at the end of the second quarter, down from 55.1 million in June 2011. Movistar ended June with 19.5 million mobile voice lines, followed by Vodafone (14.3 million), Orange (10.8 million), and Yoigo (2.9 million).
Spain had over 11.14 million fixed broadband lines at 30 June. Telefonica served nearly 5.5 million fixed broadband customers, while Ono had nearly 1.6 million customers. Orange ended June with 1.3 million fixed broadband subscribers, followed by Jazztel with 1.2 million, Vodafone with 808,883, Euskaltel with 239,018, R with 199,182 and TeleCable with 120,148 users.
