MAP > Internet Providers in Bulgaria

Bulgaria’s telecom market in recent years has been affected by the country’s difficult macroeconomic climate and fairly high unemployment as well as the shrinking population. Such factors have greatly contributed to increasing declining revenue across the industry since the year 2008. The consumers have continued to migrate from the fixed-line voices telephony to the mobile as well as the VoIP alternatives, while there has been increasing pressure on the SMS and the MMS services from growing use of the alternative OTT messaging services. The mobile network operator has also been faced with the reduced roaming revenue as well as the popularity of the bundled services that have reduced the revenue from the standalone offers.

Nonetheless, there have been some considerable opportunities for the telco’s, and despite such manifest pressure, this country’s telecom sector has continued to attract investors, as seen in the Telenor Group’s recent sales of the local unit to the PPF group. The broadband market does enjoy excellent cross-platform competition, and this includes the services based on the DSL, cable, WiMAX, fiber and LAN technologies. While the share of the market held by the cable has increased a bit in the recent years, DSL sector has been losing market share as a result of the customers migrating to the fiber networks, and in particular, those that operated by incumbent Telco by the name Vivacom. By the mid-2018, close to 56% of the Vivacom’s fixed-line broadbands subscribers were on the fiber infrastructure.

This country has been able to undertake steps to be able to grow the internet society encompassing health, commerce as well as government services. The report offers an overview of the Bulgaria’s fixed line telecoms market, and this includes data on the regulatory growth, strategies as well as performances of main operators as well as an assessment of the evolution of the fixed line networks. This report does also cover fixed line as well as the fixed wireless broadband sectors, and this includes the review of technologies, the main players, the market developments, subscriber forecasts, and the statistics. Also, the report does asses’ mobile market, and this includes the wide variety of the statistics as well as analyses that covers major operators, the market growth, the services provided as well as the emerging technologies. Some of the key companies that have been mentioned in this report does include A1 Bulgaria (MobilTel), Vivacom, A1 Bulgaria (MobilTel), Vestitel, Vivacom, Orbitel and many more.