CEE Telcos Seek Revenue Streams Outside Their Core-Business Area

Prague, October 9, 2015 – The total amount of revenues that the Central and Eastern European (CEE) telecommunications services operators generate from non-core-business revenues will continue to grow throughout the 2015–2019 forecast period, as a precarious economic environment, growing competition, and increasing regulatory pressures forces these companies to try their luck outside the declining telecom industry. (TZ)

The latest analysis by International Data Corporation (IDC) showed that the combined revenues from all non-telecommunications services (including equipment sales) constituted 14.6% of the total revenues reported by the ten observed CEE incumbent operators in 2014. This share represents an increase of 1.7 percentage points year on year.

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