Broadband market in Latvia Dana Radionova Senior Expert Market Analysis Division Tbilisi, 20 February 2016

Broadband revenues

The nature of competition in Latvia – infrastructure-based competition Investments in NGA by the incumbent (usage of own ducts) Altnets pushed incumbent to invest) 2000 2010 Investments in NGA by Alternative operators (deployment of overhead cables and usage of own ducts) 2005 2015 Year As a result 43% of active broadband access lines are based on alternative infrastructures FTTH/B network in Latvia is the second largest (in terms of coverage) in the EU Alternative operators and ultimately consumers benefit (in terms of price, speeds etc.) from the independence they have achieved from the incumbent

The largest operators LMT LATTELECOM BITE LATVIJA TELE 2 TELEKOM BALTIJA

Attractive broadband offers from altnets

Fiber To The Premises coverage FTTP – key architecture providing fixed broadband (60% of all active broadband connections ) Incumbent mainly deploys FTTH Alternative operators FTTB

4G coverage Fixed and mobile broadband are still complements. However, mobile broadband is becoming more substitutable to fixed broadband

Fixed BB subscribers and download speeds

Mobile BB download speeds in 2016

Broadband by technologies

Broadband by technologies

Thank you! Dana Radionova Senior Expert Market Analysis Division Electronic Communications and Post Department E-mail: Dana.Radionova@sprk.gov.lv