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UPDATE: great page with updated pricing/offers of major providers here:

http://galu.somnis.net/adsl.php
http://www.internautas.org/html/3401.html

Quick Summary :

  • ADSL dominates the market, with 80%+ market share
  • Telefonica is overall & ADSL leader
  • 4.970.001 Broadband subscribers as of december 2005, of which:
  • 3.483.242 Telefonica + Telefonica wholesale ADSL subs
  • 1.053.000 Cable modem subs
  • 434.759 partial and fully unbundled ADSL lines
  • Year-on-year growth running at 52%
  • ADSL2+ just launched by attackers (Jazztel, Wanadoo, Ya.com coming soon)
  • TV-over-DSL mainstream by Telefonica (Imagenio package); Others planning on launching similar offers next few months
  • Best value offer by far at the moment is Jazztel ADSL2+ (also by far the fastest growing operator)
  • Jazztel update: their ADSL2+ package is brand new, and still being rolled out to all major cities this month, but they've launched a deal that discounts the subscription fee 50% until the end of the year if you sign up this month

Key players and their offers (in alphabetical order):

Operator Offer (down - up + extras) Setup Monthly fee Price w/ VAT Price in USD Price USD/mb
Auna (Cable) 1 mb/s - 300 kb/s + wifi/router 140 41.90 48.60 50.50 50.50
Auna (Cable) 2 mb/s - 300 kb/s + wifi/router 140 44.00 51.04 53.03 26.52
Auna (Cable) 2 mb/s - 300 kb/s + wifi/router + free local/national calls 140 52.60 61.02 63.40 31.70
Auna (Cable) 2 mb/s - 300 kb/s + wifi/router + TV package 140 55.89 64.83 67.36 33.68
Auna (Cable) 2 mb/s - 300 kb/s + wifi/router + TV package + free local/national calls 140 65.09 75.50 78.45 39.23
Jazztel 20 mb/s - 1 mb/s + free local/national calls + wifi/router 35 29.95 34.74 36.10 1.80
Ono (Cable) 4 mb/s - n/a + phone line none 43.80 50.81 52.79 13.20
Ono (Cable) 4 mb/s - n/a + free local/national calls none 52.80 61.25 63.64 15.91
Ono (Cable) 4 mb/s - n/a + TV package + phone line none 58.85 68.27 70.93 17.73
Ono (Cable) 4 mb/s - n/a + TV package + free local/national calls none 67.85 78.71 81.78 20.44
Tele2 1 mb/s - 300 kb/s + wifi/router + cordless phone + free local calls none 28.90 33.52 34.83 34.83
Telefonica 1 mb/s - 300 kb/s (Basic) + wifi/router 105.30 39.07 45.32 47.09 47.09
Telefonica 2 mb/s - 300 kb/s (Class) + wifi/router 110.71 74.98 86.98 90.37 45.19
Telefonica 4 mb/s - 512 kb/s (Avanzada) + wifi/router 110.71 120.00 139.20 144.64 36.16
Telefonica 8 mb/s - 640 kb/s (Premium) + wifi/router 38.10 150.57 174.66 181.48 22.69
Telefonica TV-over-DSL, on top of ADSL subscription (Imagenio) 38.10 12.00 13.92 14.46 n/a
Wanadoo 2 mb/s - 300 kb/s + router + free local calls none 29.90 34.68 36.04 18.02
Wanadoo 2 mb/s - 300 kb/s + router + free local/national calls none 36.00 41.76 43.39 21.70
Wanadoo 20 mb/s - 1 mb/s + router + free local/national calls none 42.00 48.72 50.62 2.53
Ya.com 512 kb/s - 300 kb/s + router none 19.95 23.14 24.05 46.96
Ya.com 2 mb/s - 300 kb/s + wifi/router none 26.95 31.26 32.48 16.24
Ya.com 4 mb/s - 300 kb/s + wifi/router none 32.95 38.22 39.71 9.93
Ya.com 2 mb/s - 300 kb/s + wifi/router + cordless phone + free local/national calls none 29.95 34.74 36.10 18.05

Notes:

  • For ADSL packages, nearly 100% of customers will still be paying a standard line rental to Telefonica, which is about 12.95 Euros/month.
  • Customers getting "fully unbundled" lines still pay line rental, but to their ADSL provider. So the main convenience is in having a single bill, not avoiding the line rental.
  • "Naked DSL" doesn't exist here

latest 2005 subscriber numbers :

Operator Type Subs Date
Telefonica ADSL 2.005.009 June 30, 2005
Auna Cable ? xx
Wanadoo ADSL 526.000 June 30, 2005
Ono Cable 372,246 June 30, 2005
Terra ADSL ? xx
Ya.com ADSL ? xx
Jazztel ADSL 86.355 June 30, 2005
Tele2 ADSL ? xx

quarterly data are hard to come by for the cable and smaller dsl players. Can anybody help with this?

2004 Market share (end of year) :

Operator Type Subs Market share
Total market All 3.331.966 100%
Telefonica ADSL 1.609.934 48.3%
Auna Cable 397.854 11.9%
Wanadoo ADSL 378.640 11.4%
Ono Cable 275.030 8.3%
Terra ADSL 189.036 5.7%
Ya.com ADSL 149.444 4.5%

Source: CMT reports

Good local sources :

-heads-up: they're all in Espanol ;)

Rants :

  • The Telefonica website represents the global benchmark in how to confuse your customers; it buries you in a blizzard of popup windows, only to present you with a maddening array of offers that make NO sense to normal non-techie people.
  • Jazztel gets kudos for innovation and pushing hard, but its customer service has been the source of a LOT of complaints.

Anything else you need to know? Give me a shout at: yannicklaclau.com


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