Today, the Danish telecom services market is open on a nondiscriminatory basis. Several U.S. and third-country companies took advantage of the opportunities offered by the first opening in 1992 for private cellular telephone services and moved in quickly. Those have now settled. As a result of increased competition, rates for overseas calls have also been cut, making it hard on some of the handful of call-back services operating here. Opportunities may exist in buy-outs of established companies.
Prospects look particularly good in the internet service sector.
However, fast growth is already in process and the growth may reach its peak during the next two-three years. There are also prospects for U.S. companies who may wish to enter into joint ventures with Danish companies in third-country markets. U.S. suppliers such as Motorola and Northern Telecom also play an important role as hardware suppliers in Denmark. In May 1997 and June 1998, the Danish parliament passed complex sets of legislation, which de facto completed the legal basis for the liberalization of the Danish telecommunications sector, making Denmark a full compliant with the EU Resolution on Liberalization of the Telecommunication Sectors. In 1992, Denmark introduced competition in the cellular market by granting a license to a private operator, Sonofon.