Regional telecoms overview: Eastern Europe

With low disposable income and low penetration rates for fixed and broadband services, the Eastern European markets pose a challenging environment for telcos. Mobile revenues have gone some way to offsetting declining fixed voice revenues and despite launching innovative broadband services and bundles, operators are struggling to achieve the customer numbers needed to encourage top-line growth.

This report provides an overview of the key financial and operational developments of Eastern European operators, which benchmarks their performance against each other for 2007.