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Greece telecoms market has been able to suffer from the tough economic conditions in recent years, leading to the lower sector overall revenue as well as investment. Operators across board have been able to enjoy gross profits tumble yearly and continuing economic turmoil is going to make the market conditions difficult during next few years. The dominant player remains incumbent Telco OTE that has been able to experience very significant challenges but is usually supported by organizational ability and the financial clout of the parent Deutsche Telekom that owns 45 percent stake in this company. 

The broadband penetration in Greece has been developing steadily and this is despite difficult economic conditions. Main operators have secured loans to be able to build fiber based next generation networks as well as to reach European broadband targets for the year 2025. The consumers who are in Greece have very limited choices since country remains only one in Europe with the single access network, there being no cable platform and also only a very limited reach of the fiber infrastructure thus far.

Greece’s highly developed mobile market has been dominated by three mobile network operators namely Wind Hellas, the Vodafone Greece, and the Cosmote. The operators have continued to invest in the LTE infrastructure and the technologies to offer networks that are capable of meeting the customer's demand for data services. This, in turn, has been helping operators to be able to offset declining revenue from the voice as well as the SMS service. Vodafone, as well as the Wind Hellas, have the mobile network sharing the deal and have been able to partner to develop the large scale fiber-based fixed line NGN.

Regulatory has been able to set in train release of the spectrum in the 3.4-3.8GHz band, which has been used for the anticipating spectrum auctions that are to be held in the year 2019, with the services being launched in the urban areas by late 2019, and nationally by the year 2020. In the year 2018, October, the Wind Hellas announced that there were plans to try 5G during the year 2019, initially in the Kalamata.

The report introduces key aspects of Greek fixed line telecoms, the wholesale and the IT market, the outlining regulatory environment, getting to assess major players and offering major players and offering relevant operational data and the financial statistics on both operators and market.