| NOTAS: | "Ovum's annual analysis of the European wholesale telecoms market shows that wholesale revenues in Europe declined by 6.2% between 2011 and 2012. Over the same period, the same players’ European retail revenues fell by 10.0%. In contrast, their total global revenues declined by 4.4%, highlighting the negative impact of the greater economic turmoil in Europe than in most other regions of the world. In the European wholesale market, revenues from fixed voice, fixed non-voice, and mobile wholesale services all declined year on year, although the fixed voice sector’s 13.1% slide was far greater than that in either of the other sectors. Wholesalers must do more to counter the continuing decline in wholesale fixed and mobile voice revenues by improving their portfolios of higher-margin non-voice services." |
