European Transport, Communications, and Utilities - Structure and Performance Indicators, 2004

This IDC study illustrates selected European infrastructure market indicators for 2003 and 2004, examining the dynamics of the transport, communications, and utilities sectors. It provides a useful set of market indicators as an aid in helping you to understand the structure, size, and economic importance on a country level of all major European infrastructure markets. This research is appropriate for those ICT vendors that are targeting or intend to target European transport, communications, and utilities companies. This document outlines the economic importance of the transport, communications, and utilities sectors, detailing GDP data for each sector.

The study provides data on the number of enterprises by company size class and top 5 Western European economies for the infrastructure sectors.

This study also identifies infrastructure employment structure across Western Europe. Geographical coverage includes the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.K.

"ICT vendors preparing to target the infrastructure sectors in 2004 will see more demand from the utilities sector. Due to profit recovery, the opportunity coming from the communications industry will be greater than in the previous two years. The transport sector is very sensitive to the GDP growth and in a phase of change; in certain segments, IT opportunities are given for vendors," said Simon Tywuschik, research analyst at IDC.