The total revenue of the telecommunications sector in 2009 in the Southeastern Europe countries (excluding Slovenia) amounted to EUR 11.830 bln, down 4.8% on the year. The revenue from mobile telephony was EUR 6.544 bln, accounting for 58.1% of the sector’s total, while fixed telephony contributed 23% to the total revenue with sales of EUR 2.585 bln.
The total revenue of the telecommunications sector accounted for between 3.3% and 9.3% of the SEE countries’ GDP for 2009. The share of telecommunications revenue as a percentage of GDP was highest in Montenegro - 9.3% and Moldova - 9.0%.
Moldova was the country with the highest annual drop in the sector’s revenue of 19%, followed by Montenegro with 11.5% and Slovenia with 7.5%.