Market Research Reports - Ken Research Norway Telecom Industry Mergers and Acquisitions

Technological Developments in Norway Telecom Sector: Ken Research
With higher development taking place in mobile and broadband penetration rates and higher
developed digital media sector, Norway has a dynamic telecom market in common with other
Scandinavian countries. With relevant EC legislation, Norway telecom sector has been
synchronized. There is an increase in competition between existing players and newly entered
players. Despite all this, Telenor has been the dominant operator in all the sectors in the
country. Some operators have been incorporating and unitedly increasing its market share. For
example- Telia Sonera increased its market share by acquiring Tele 2 and in March 2016, it has
remained its local division Netcom as Telia. On the other hand, Telio is now incorporated by
Next Gen Tel Holding.
According to the report, “Norway - Telecoms, Mobile, Broadband and Digital Media - Statistics
and Analyses”, the penetration of broadband in Norway has been the highest rate in Europe.
Therefore, migration to superfast broadband services has been provided by the fire network
that took place with efforts of telco and government of the country. It has been upgraded to
superfast VDSL and cable infrastructure. In the end of 2016, G.Fast technology has been
observed being introduced by leading ISP's Telenor and Next Gen Tel with a view to commercial
launch of services.
In March 2016, Telenor mobil and Telia Sonera's have rebranded Telia division, and dominated
the mobile market in the country. In December 2013, Tele 2 went through a failure to secure
spectrum at auction and sold its Norwegian operations. Before the failure of Tele 2, it was a
part owner of joint venture mobile Norway. Due to the failure of Tele 2, Ice.net an operator
owned by AINMT Holdings was benefited by securing spectrum at auction and also gained
network Norway's customer base as a part of the deal enforced by the telecom regulator. With
the growing number of NVNO's, voice and data services were supplemented by these
operators.
With Telenor as well as Telia spearheading networking, the network has been well advanced in
LTE developments in the region. In the future years till 2020 and 2025, both the operators will
decide to close down their 2G and 3G networks and will focus on 5G forth coming technologies
instead to LTE development. It will also provide voice using VoLTE to consumers. To about 1.5
million Norwegians, Telia offers a LTE which will provide service of 300 Mb/s. As a precursor to
5G, it has also achieved 1 GB data rate using quad-band carrier aggregation technology.
In Norway, Telenor is the incumbent telecom operator and has an experience of more than 150
years. Fixed-line and mobile telephony, broadband, TV and Datacom services are included in
Telenor's service portfolio. About 3.1 million mobile subscriptions in Norway, 86% of
subscriptions were a contract which included SMS, data and voice in 2016. It is the leading
provider of mobile communication in Norway. With the persistent steps taken by the stable as
well as this leading company especially, all these sectors are bound to register huge revenues in
the coming future.