What data actually exists about this industry, who typically holds it, at what granularity, and how obtainable it is. Public means openly published; purchasable is sold by a vendor; partnership needs a bilateral deal; exclusive is effectively locked up by one party.
| Data category | Who holds it | Granularity | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| registry/licensing/permits | National regulators and spectrum authorities (Ofcom, FCC, BNetzA), ITU, RIPE NCC/other RIRs for IP/AS registries, municipal authorities for… | Per licence, per spectrum block, per site/mast, per numbering range, per AS/IP… | public |
| employment & workforce | Operators' HR systems, national statistics offices (structural business statistics), unions, labour regulators; field-force contractors | Company-level headcount in filings; NACE-level aggregates by region annually | public |
| reviews & sentiment | App stores, Trustpilot/consumer forums, regulator complaint statistics (Ofcom quarterly complaints), social listening vendors | Per review; complaints per 100k subscribers per operator per quarter | public |
| financial filings | Listed operators and tower cos (annual/quarterly reports), regulators collecting mandatory financial returns, business registries | Quarterly/annual per legal entity; some per-segment (mobile/fixed/wholesale) | public |
| waste & emissions | Operators' ESG/sustainability reporting (CDP, GRI), e-waste recyclers handling handsets and network gear, environmental regulators | Annual company-level Scope 1/2/3 tonnes CO2e; tonnes of WEEE collected | public |
| production output | Operators and regulators tracking network build-out; broadband coverage mapping bodies (EU Broadband Mapping, FCC BDC, Ofcom Connected… | Premises passed/homes connected per quarter per region; new sites deployed | public |
| pricing | Operators' published tariff pages, regulators (national regulatory authorities, BEREC, FCC), tariff comparison sites and benchmarking… | Per plan/tariff per market, updated on change; monthly ARPU aggregates in… | purchasable |
| geospatial/movement | Mobile operators (signalling/handover data), mobility-analytics resellers (Telefónica Tech, Orange Flux, Deutsche Telekom MOTIONTAG-type… | Per-subscriber cell-attachment event; commercially sold as aggregated… | purchasable |
| communications/marketing performance | Operators' marketing departments, ad-intelligence vendors (Nielsen Ad Intel, Kantar), churn/acquisition analytics vendors | Per campaign; monthly gross adds, churn rate, ad spend by channel per operator | purchasable |
| quality & compliance testing | Regulators' QoS reporting regimes, independent benchmark firms (P3/umlaut, Systemics-PAB, Ookla), operators' drive-test units | Per market per operator per test campaign; per measurement point | purchasable |
| sensor/IoT | Operators' network OSS/EMS and probes, RAN vendors (Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei) via managed services, crowdsourced measurement firms (Ookla… | Per cell/per network element counters at 5–15 min intervals; per-device… | partnership |
| energy consumption | Operators' network energy management systems, tower companies (Cellnex, Vantage, IHS), utilities/DNOs, ESG reporting in annual reports | Per-site kWh daily/monthly; company-wide annual totals in sustainability reports | partnership |
| incident/safety/claims | Operators' NOC incident systems, regulators requiring outage reporting (FCC NORS, EU security incident reports under EECC/NIS2), CERTs | Per outage/incident with duration, users affected, cause | partnership |
| booking/utilization/occupancy | Operators and tower companies (tenancy ratios), data-centre/colocation and subsea cable capacity operators, IXPs (port utilisation) | Per cell/sector load per hour; per tower tenancy count; per cable system lit… | partnership |
| customer demographics | Operator CRM and subscriber management, credit bureaux used for postpaid scoring, ad-tech units of operators | Per subscriber account; sold only as aggregated segments by postcode | partnership |
| transactional/sales | Mobile and fixed network operators (BSS/billing systems), MVNOs, wholesale interconnect settlement units, clearing houses (e.g. Syniverse… | Per call/SMS/data session CDR, aggregated to per-subscriber monthly bill | exclusive |
| inventory & supply chain | Operators' procurement and SIM/handset logistics, network equipment vendors, distributors and retail channel partners | Per SKU per warehouse/store; per purchase order | exclusive |
| maintenance & asset condition | Operators' field service/asset management systems, tower companies, network vendors under managed-service contracts, cable… | Per work order / per site visit; per network element fault ticket | exclusive |
Compiled by the TriData research system from public registers, industry structure and regulatory reporting obligations; refreshed as the underlying catalogue grows. Look up the code itself in the NACE code finder.