Digital and communication services rely on telecom networks. Accordingly, all Danish households, businesses, and public institutions depend on fixed and mobile networks for everyday services, such as cloud, AI, and communications. As digitalisation and data consumption continue to grow, this dependency is likely to deepen, making robust connectivity increasingly important.
Telecom operators face an increasingly complex threat landscape, spanning cyber threats, physical attacks, system failures, and natural phenomena. This means that secure and resilient networks are of utmost importance. Reliability is especially critical for emergency services, government communications, and key sectors such as finance, energy, and transport, all of which require uninterrupted and secure digital infrastructure.
Against this backdrop, Copenhagen Economics has been asked by TDC Net to assess TDC Net’s role in supporting digital services and critical use cases in Denmark.
In our analysis, we find that TDC Net has a system-critical role as a telecom operator in the following ways:
In light of these findings, TDC Net stands out as the only operator with extensive activities across all major infrastructure layers. To maintain its leading role, TDC Net invests significantly more than other Danish operators. Its investment levels are the highest in Denmark, reflecting its broad infrastructure role as well as the ambition to support future traffic growth, new technologies, and strengthened resilience.
This study was commissioned by TDC Net.
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