As of March 2013, the number of standalone and bundled broadband plans in the Teligen OECD Fixed Broadband Price Benchmarking service totalled just over 2,300 ? broadly comparable to the December 2012 update. The number of fibre-based packages now stands at just under 31% of all plans, while 63% of all packages are residential offerings, more than half of which are bundled offerings. In terms of speed, almost two thirds of all plans offer download of 15 Mb/s or above, while a quarter have an advertised maximum download speed of 45 Mb/s or above.

In this update, there have been a number of changes to the ISPs covered. In Belgium, Base (owned by KPN) no longer offers residential services for new supply. A new KPN-owned company, SNOW, has been set up to serve residential customers, with a range of multiplay offers, and these have been included in the system. Base will continue to serve new business customers for the time being, and business-based pricing can still be found in the system under Base. In France, an additional operator, SFR has been introduced, in addition to the three ISPs already covered, while in Iceland, ISP Hringi?an has been replaced by Tal ? both of these changes being made on the basis of market share considerations. Furthermore, in Czech Republic, ISP GTS Novera has been replaced by T-Mobile, to reflect the fact that GTS Novera focuses primarily on the business market, while T-Mobile addresses both residential and business customers. Finally Polish incumbent operator Telekomunikacja Polska S.A. (also often referred to as TP SA or Polish Telecom) has recently been rebranded to Orange Polska/Poland. The rebranding was initially announced in Q4 2012.

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The Swedish incumbent claims to be the first operator in Europe to offer shared data plans with its new offering Telia Mobil Dela.

The Huvudabonnemang determines included data per month ranging from 2GB at SEK 399 per month up to 10GB at SEK 799 per month. One Mobile Voice tariff is included in the Huvudabonnemang. However, customers can choose to add up to six Mobile voice tariff (Telia Mobil Dela Mobilanslutning) at SEK 149 per month or a Mobile Surf tariff (Telia Mobile Dela Surfanslutning) with a SEK 29 monthly charge. The mobile voice tariffs includes free voice calls and SMS within Sweden.

There is an extra charge for adding more devices to the tariff, price depends on what type of devices.

These tariffs were available from Monday 25th March.

Full details of these and other tariffs will be available in our March update of Teligen’s OECD Mobile Broadband Price Benchmarking.

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The February 2013 OECD Mobile Voice Price Benchmarking update is now available to download. In this update we have added many new packages and also reflected changes made to previous existing packages, a selection of which is reported below.

Optus in Australia has refreshed its offers in its postpaid Cap and Timeless ranges. In Estonia, Tele2 has extended its range by adding some new prepaid offers. In France, Orange's offers under its "Sosh" brand have been modified. In Germany, T-Mobile has added a new postpaid range to its portfolio called "Special Complete". In Greece, Vodafone has added two new postpaid ranges: "Vodafone to Everyone" and "Vodafone RED". In New Zealand, Vodafone has added a new "Smart" SIM-Only range to its plans. In Norway, Telenor's Djuice brand has renewed its range of plans, it is now offering Nonstop and Deal ranges. In Portugal, TMN has relaunched its postpaid Unlimited range with a revised structure.

The May 2012 update of Teligen?s OECD Voice Price Benchmarking (formerly T-Basket) is now available to subscribers. There are some changes to the low user 100 Calls basket, in the mobile benchmarking service, since the last update in February 2011, reflecting the changes to operators? portfolios up to the end of May 2012.

However, there has only been one new entrant into the top ten with Ireland?s O2 coming into the ten. Nonetheless, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium and Israel all improved their positions in the top 25 list of countries from the February 2012 update.

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In this bumper issue of Tariff Outlook we bring you news of a line rental rise for
TalkTalk in the UK, while Vodafone in Australia and The Netherlands introduce new
plans. In the USA AT&T is changing its GoPhone data pricing and 3 in the UK
introduces new Ultimate Internet plans. The department store John Lewis in the UK
is entering the broadband market and finally the Indian telecoms regulator is
insisting on a per second option from all national operators. Those are some of the
stories we bring you this week. We hope you enjoy them!

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The number of Broadband plans in the Teligen Fixed Broadband Price Benchmarking service continues to grow. As of March 2012, the service covered 2,240 standalone and bundled broadband plans, up from 2,096 plans in the previous update, and representing an increase of almost 7%. A quarter of all plans are fibre-based offerings, while 50% of all residential plans are now bundled offerings.

There have been some changes to the providers covered by the service, to better reflect more representative providers, based on new market share data. In Greece, Vivodi has been replaced by CYTA, and in Mexico, Cablevision has been replaced by Axtel. Broadband services from Elisa in Finland are now offered through its daughter company, Saunalahti, and this has also been reflected in this update.

There have been no further changes to the system functionality with this update, however, if you have any difficulty using any of the functions within Fixed Broadband Price Benchmarking, or would like more information on how to get the most out of the system, we are available to help.

All details of the tariff changes can be found in the latest Fixed Broadband Price Benchmarking Update. Teligen monitors price developments of this sort in its quarterly updates of Fixed Broadband Price Benchmarking http://sa-link.cc/b8

Bouygues had added another price plan to its range of Prepaid tariffs. The new Formule Illimitee soiree & SMS tariffs offers unlimited calls to all operators between 1900 and 2400 every day, plus unlimited text messages to any French operator at any time. There are six top-ups available, ranging from EUR 10.00 with a 7-day validity, to EUR 60.00, valid for three months and including a EUR 15.00 bonus.

Bouygues' other Prepaid tariffs, which are still valid, include:

• Classique - the default plan offering the longest credit validity
• SMS illimites - giving unlimited text messages as well as calling minutes, but with a shorter recharge validity
• 2 fois plus - where credit can be used for international calls at advantageous rates
• Soir & Week-end - offering reduced price evening and weekend calls but higher daytime charges in return

Full details of the plans above are available in Mobile Voice Online Price Database. Teligen monitors price developments of this sort in its continuous updates of the Mobile Voice Online Price Database http://sa-link.cc/72

On 5 March, T-Mobile Netherlands, introduced a new range of iSmart price plans aimed at Smartphone users. All tariffs include unlimited text messages to any Dutch operator with a fair usage policy of 2500 SMS per month.    Allowances are valid for minutes and multimedia messages and any text messages over and above the fair use policy will be charged at EUR 0.35 each. In addition, data is included in all plans, from 1000MB per month for iSmart 75 (EUR 37.50) to 2000MB for iSmart 1500 (EUR 139.50 per month).   Users exceeding their data bundle will be charged Eur 0.10 per MB.

Spanish operator Yoigo has refreshed its post-paid range by introducing four Megaplans, all of which include mobile internet access. Data bundles range from 150MB for La Mega Plana 20 to 1.2GB per month for La Mega Plana 55. With all four tariffs, data speeds will be reduced after the allowance has been used up.  In addition, the two highest value tariffs give an additional VoIP allowance of 100MB per month. On all Megaplans, call charges are EUR 0.12 per minute plus a set-up charge; a text message costs EUR 0.10 and a MMS EUR 0.30.

Full details of the plans above are available in Mobile Voice Online Price Database. Teligen monitors price developments of this sort in its continuous updates of the Mobile Voice Online Price Database http://sa-link.cc/72

Tele2 has replaced its Abonnement and SIM-only tariffs with SmartMix. Users receive a minutes and text allowance which they can mix and match. Voice mail is included in the bundle but MMS and data have to be purchased separately, either individually or as an add-on. The starter plan is Bel/SMS 50, which costs EUE 10.00 per month on a 12-month or 24-month basis and comes with a handset. There are seven plans in the range.

Those interested in a SIM-only tariff can choose from five different options, starting with Bel/SMS 100, at EUR 3.00 with a 12-month subscription. Without a contract commitment, SIM-only plans incur a surcharge of between EUR 2.00 and EUR 3.00.

Full details of the plans above are available in Mobile Voice Online Price Database. Teligen monitors price developments of this sort in its continuous updates of the Mobile Voice Online Price Database http://sa-link.cc/72

T-Mobile have launched a new all-inclusive package which offers customers unlimited calls, texts and internet. The plan is called The Full Monty and has been described by industry analysts as a major challenge to T-Mobiles rivals as it scraps the fair use cap on data thereby giving customers the option of unlimited streaming of films and TV shows .

The cheapest Full Monty deal is GBP 36 a month and offers unlimited internet access, unlimited texts and unlimited calls to other T-Mobile customers in addition to 2,000 minutes of calls to other numbers.

The other plans come at GBP 41, GBP 46 and GBP 61 respectively and all offer unlimited  calls to all numbers, landline or mobile, regardless of the network.

It is expected that  firms such as  Vodafone and O2 will  launch rival data and call packages to prevent a customer exodus.

Full details of the plans above are available in Mobile Voice Online Price Database. Teligen monitors price developments of this sort in its continuous updates of the Mobile Voice Online Price Database http://sa-link.cc/72