The present Annex summarises the options and premises used in the estimation of market shares, and these are explained and justified in the analysis.
1. Available information
ICP-ANACOM had access to the following relevant information for the purposes of estimating market share:
- Information on ADSL broadband accesses, with the following level of itemisation: o Quarterly wholesale, broken down by operator, by MDF and by class of
service (with respect to the “Rede ADSL PT” wholesale offer);
o Quarterly wholesale, broken down by operator and by MDF (with respect to the RUO);
o Six months retail, broken down by operator, by class of speed and by NUTS II; o Quarterly retail on the number of IP TV customers of PTC (presentation of
results).
- Information on cable modem broadband accesses (retail) broken down by operator. 2. Need for compatibility with respect to the various data available
3. The detail of the analysis in geographic terms requires that certain presumptions are made for the purposes of estimating market share, particularly in order to ensure compatibility between the various available data. 4. Therefore, and taking into account that it was decided to define the exchange area as the relevant geographic unit in the estimation of market share, the options and premises detailed below were used.
5. Options and premises assumed Base data
In the estimation of market shares, in the context of both the wholesale and retail markets: - The wholesale data relating to ADSL accesses were used, with the distribution of
broadband accesses with respect to the MEO service of PTC193
by exchange areas, on the presumption that in 2007 these accesses were associated only with exchanges with co-installed operators (principles exchange areas where there as ADSL2+ technology), and bearing in mind the proportion of broadband accesses in these exchange areas;
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- The data relating to broadband access supported through cable modem are first distributed by municipality in terms of the number of customers of the cable television service (provided by cable distribution networks)194
) of each operator, and then by the exchanges in the municipality covered by cable distribution networks, in terms of the number of FTS accesses of each exchange area.
It is assumed that there is perfect matching of the areas covered by the exchanges and the coverage area of the municipalities.
Retail information
Besides the base scenario referred to in the previous sector, valid in a scenario where wholesale regulation is maintained, assessment is made of the retail market shares taking into account the absence of regulation, assuming that:
- Scenario 1: The accesses supported by the “Rede ADSL PT” and LLU wholesale offers would be counted as PT Group broadband accesses;
- Scenario 2: The accesses supported through the “Rede ADSL PT” and LLU wholesale offers will be attributed to PT Group, in the first place, depending on the number of customers who only have FTS195, while the remaining accesses196
are distributed among PT Group and the cable distribution network operators depending on the weight of the “own” accesses of each operator.
Wholesale information
Market for wholesale provision of broadband access
In estimating the market shares in the market for the wholesale supply of broadband access and taking into account the base data referred to in Section Error! Reference source not found., the concept of internal supply was used, whereby it was considered that:
- The “Rede ADSL PT” and MEO accesses contracted by the companies of the PT group are counted as wholesale accesses of PT Group;
- The broadband access supported over the networks of each cable distribution network operator are counted as wholesale accesses of these operators:
- The “Rede ADSL PT” accesses provided by PTC to third parties are counted as wholesale accesses of PT Group;
- The LLU accesses provided by PTC to third parties are counted as wholesale accesses of each of these (third) operators.
194
That is to say, customers of the DTH television service are excluded.
195
That is to say, it assumed that the customers who do not have cable television and have contracted the FTS will support broadband services over the local loops of copper pairs.
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Wholesale provision of access (physical) to network infrastructure at a fixed location In estimating the market shares in the market for the market for the wholesale network infrastructure access (physical) at a fixed location, use was also made of the concept of internal supply, with consideration given, for the purposes of estimating market share, to all active accesses at a fixed location, irrespective of the support infrastructure, that allow the use of broadband accesses. Account was thus taken of:
- all active accesses of the cable distribution networks, regardless of the type of service contracted197
, which are counted as wholesale accesses belonging to each one of the cable distribution network operators198;
- all accesses in use with reference to the PTC network are counted as the wholesale accesses of the PT Group (including accesses unbundled to third parties)199
;
- Any other active accesses supported over other infrastructure, such as FWA, are counted as wholesale accesses of the operators possessing such accesses.
Each basic or primary ISDN access was counted as a single access.
197 Except for DTH accesses which do not support broadband service accesses. 198
Quarterly information broken down by operator and municipality.
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