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 telecom regulators (Bundesnetzagentur, Ofcom, ARCEP, FCC), which maintain registers of notified electronic communications service… | per registered undertaking / per licence / per number block | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistical offices (SBS/structural business statistics for NACE 61.2), reseller HR systems, job boards | annual employment counts per NACE class per country; per-employee internally | public |
| reviews & sentiment | Review platforms (Trustpilot, Google), regulator complaint statistics, consumer bodies, app stores | per review; complaints per 100k subscribers per operator per quarter | public |
| financial filings | Listed and registered MVNOs and reseller groups, national business registers, stock exchanges | quarterly and annual company-level statements, sometimes segment-level… | public |
| pricing | MVNOs and resellers (published tariffs), price-comparison sites, regulators (BEREC, Ofcom, FCC tariff collections), market-research vendors… | per tariff plan per operator per country, updated on change; wholesale rate… | purchasable |
| quality & compliance testing | Regulators and auditors (number portability compliance, roaming rules, lawful-intercept obligations), crowdsourced network-quality vendors… | per test sample geolocated; per operator brand monthly aggregate | purchasable |
| incident/safety/claims | Resellers and host operators (service outage records), regulators requiring outage/security incident notification under NIS2/EECC… | per incident, with duration and affected subscriber counts | partnership |
| booking/utilization/occupancy | MVNOs and their host MNOs via wholesale settlement; MVNEs/MVNAs | per SIM per month traffic usage (voice minutes, SMS, data GB), aggregated to… | partnership |
| communications/marketing performance | Reseller marketing teams, affiliate networks, comparison and switching platforms, digital ad platforms | per campaign per channel per day; per lead / per acquisition with CAC and churn… | partnership |
| transactional/sales | MVNOs, airtime/top-up resellers, calling-card and wholesale voice brokers, comparison/switching platforms, payment and top-up aggregators… | per transaction / per subscriber activation, aggregated daily and monthly | exclusive |
| inventory & supply chain | SIM/eSIM providers, handset distributors serving resellers, logistics partners | per SIM batch / ICCID range, per device SKU per warehouse | exclusive |
| geospatial/movement | MVNOs and IoT/M2M connectivity resellers holding roaming and cell-attach records; travel-eSIM providers | per SIM per roaming event / per country per day | exclusive |
| customer demographics | MVNOs (especially ethnic/diaspora and prepaid brands), CRM and BSS vendors, distribution/retail partners | per subscriber record; aggregated by segment, tariff and postcode | 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.