The majority (90%) of users use high-speed Internet, according to second quarter figures released on Tuesday by Anacom. – National Communications Authority
According to the regulator led by Fátima Barros, in late June, nine out of 10 users resorted to access the Internet at speeds above 20 Mbps, while more than half (56.7%) were accesses above 30 Mbps.
More than a quarter wore access to the Internet at speeds above 100 Mbps.
According to Anacom in the second quarter Internet access traffic Broadband increased by 2.9 %, particularly due to the rise of 2.8% of fixed broadband traffic, which represents 96.1% of the total of 443 800 000 gigabytes (GB) generated in the period.
” The mobile broadband traffic increased 6.1% in the same period, with traffic generated by cards / modems grown 4.1% and the traffic generated by smartphones [smart phones] increased 10.6%, “it said.
In absolute terms, fixed access to the Internet in the Portuguese market amounted to three million, 2.3% more than in the first quarter and an increase of 11.6% over the same period last year.
“The ADSL continues to be the main Internet access technology in fixed broadband (35.6% of total) – very close to the cable modem (34.5%) – although it has been the only technology which saw a decrease in the number of subscribers (-1.5% QoQ), “refers to Anacom.
The Internet over optical fiber (FTTH / FTTB) is responsible for 24, . 1% of the accesses
“The biggest contribution to the growth in the number of hits has been given by optical fiber – FTTH / FTTB (over 7.5% this quarter and 35.3% year on year ), “said the governor.
Anacom points out that the rise of Internet access over optical fiber in the last two quarters was the largest ever,” with about 50,000 new accesses in each of the quarters “.
Between April and June, there was an increase of 10.2% another type of access to the Internet (leased lines, satellite, LTE at a fixed location), although with a reduced weight (5 9%), but was the “second mode that most contributed to the growth in the number of hits.”
The number of users who actually used the Internet using mobile broadband amounted to 4.8 million in June, an increase of 22% year on year and 3.8% over the first quarter.
“The evolution of mobile broadband has been driven mainly by the increase in the number of smartphones users ‘, which in this quarter now account for 62.2% of all mobile users (an increase of 16.3 percentage points over the same quarter), “says the regulator.
By market share, the Altice, which holds the Meo and even Cabovisão and Oni, reached 51% of wireline accesses, followed by the US, resulting from the merger of Zon with Optimus, with 35.5% and Vodafone with 13.2% and this was the operator with the highest growth.
“If we consider the broadband traffic, customers of Altice group accounted for 47.7% of the generated traffic, the US generated 43.3% of traffic and Vodafone 8.1%. “
With regard to active customer shares of mobile broadband, Meo leads with 48.3%, followed by the US with 29% and Vodafone with 22.4%.
In annual terms, said Anacom, the US has seen its share rise by 6.2 percentage points and Meo increased by 0.1 percentage points.
In turn, Vodafone saw its market share year on year, falling 6.3 percentage points.
“As for the mobile Internet traffic, is where there is less asymmetry in the distribution of quotas market, with the US the highest, with 37.6%, followed by Vodafone and Meo with 32.1% and 30.3%, respectively, “he said.
” The revenues from the fixed Internet access service ‘stand-alone’ and service packages that include this service totaled in the first six months of 2015, about 742.1 million euros, “he added.
In the same period, revenues from mobile Internet access service totaled 150.3 million euros.
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