Broadband : Spain

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 ;)

CMT (Spain's telco regulator)
BlogTelecom (best pure-telco blog)
Barrapunto (Spain's Slashdot)
Internautas.org (Spain's other Slashdot ;) )
Enrique Dans (Spain's Om Malik)
Error500 (occasional broadband nugget)
GSMSpain (decent mobile news)
Voz IP (Peoplecall's CEO Blog)

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