In Europe, the ISP landscape shrinks in the summer
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This summer would be a major breakdown in the telecommunications industry. With AOL-Time Warner considering moving out of Europe, the ISP landscape is going to change, radically.
In the UK, BT and BSkyB are leading the buyout of AOL UK. The auction current price is about €1.2 billion. If BT wins, it could top France Telecom’s Orange in the residential broadband market segment.
Across the English Channel, AOL France is a sweet cherry even more chased. Forbes reported that Neuf Cegetel, second biggest ISP of the country, Iliad, Deutsche Telekom, also well anchored, and Telecom Italia are on the list. A buyout would most likely happen around next October.
Neuf Cegetel is also interested in buying Tele2, an ISP more successful in North Europe. The later ISP has bought another broadband provider called E.ON.
And AOL Germany also attracts many attention. Its CEO refuse to name the pretenders, but Telecom Italia, Versatel, and United Internet already unveiled enrolled.
With the market becoming more concentrated, triple-play offers, that gives an Internet access combined to a VoIP telephone an IPTV service, will shift to quad-play offers. The fourth pipe is the mobile phone.
Jul 2, 2006 | By Nuno
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