Communication sector in New Member States and Candidate Countries

European Commission Eurostat

Description

Industry, trade and services

Informations

• Publié par: EUROPEAN-COMMISSION-EUROSTAT
• Nombre de lectures: 8
• Langue: English

Extrait

Statistics

in focus

INDUSTRY, TRADE AND SERVICES

28/2004

Author Martti Lumio C o n t e n t s Key facts .................................... 1

Telecommunication turnover and employment ....................... 2

Telecommunication traffic ....... 2

Subscribers to Telecom- munication networks ................ 3

Operators development............ 4

Internet hosts ............................ 4

Economic data in Postal and Courier services........................ 5

Postal services infrastructure . 5

Postal services.......................... 6

Manuscri  pt completed on: 9.06.2004 ISSN 1561-4840 Catalogue number: KS-NP-04-028-EN-C © European Communities, 2004

Communication sector in

New Member States and

Candidate Countries z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z

Gr aph 1: Turnove r (in curr e nt price s ) and e m ploym e nt in Te le com and Pos tal & Cour ie r activitie s in NM Ss and CCs (inde x 1998=100) , 1995-2002 160 150 140 130 120 110 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002

•

•

•

•

•

Telecom employment Telecom turnover

Postal & Courier employment Postal & Courier turnover

No tes: NM S/CC aggregate is a Euro stat estimate fo r all the years.Teleco m Turno ver:B G (1995) is missing.Turno ver:P o stal & Co urier activities NM S/CC aggregate excludes: M T (all years), LV and LT (1995), P L (all years) and RO (1995 and 1996). Data excludes Co urier activities fo r CZ, SI, TR (all years). P o stal & Co urier activities Emplo yment:Data excludes Co urier activities fo r LV and LT (1995), CZ, M T, P L and SI (all years), B G and RO (1995-1997) and TR (all years), A verage emplo yment data is used fo r EE (1995-1998); RO (1998) and TR (1996-2002).

KEY FACTS

Between 1995 and 2002, turnover in current prices from telecommunication 1 services in the New Member States (NMSs) more than tripled (from 4 401 to 2 13 939 Mio euro) and in the Candidate Countries (CCs) it increased almost five times (from 1 812 to 8 565 Mio euro). Employment showed a slight downward trend.

In NMSs there were some 70 times more mobile subscriptions in 2002 than in 1995 while the number of main lines grew by 65%.In the CCs mobile subscriptions increased more than a hundred times and the number of main lines by 40%. In the EU-15, where the market was more mature, growth was slower  mobile subscriptions rose 14 times and main lines registered a 16% increase.

In 2003 the average number of Internet hosts per 100 inhabitants in the New Member States and Candidate Countries was 2.3 and 0.5, respectively. In the EU- 15 the figure was 4.3 but the average annual growth from 2001 to 2003 in NMSs and CCs was much higher than in the EU-15 (25%, 60% and 14%, respectively).

Turnover from Postal services per 10 000 inhabitants between 1995 and 2002 revealed opposite development in New Member States and Candidate Countries: in NMSs it increased 29% to 401 800 euro but in CCs it decreased 37% to 62 300 euro.

From 1998 to 2002, the average number of letter post items and postal parcels per 100 inhabitants increased by almost 15% in the NMSs but decreased by 11% in the CCs.

(1)The New Member States are: the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia. (2)The Candidate Countries are: Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey.

Data: Source Eurostat unless mentioned.