36.5% of Portuguese Internet users have high-speed connections – SAPO Tek

The Portuguese market internet is monitoring the digital times we live in and the analysis of Anacom for the second quarter of the year shows the trend.

According to the regulator at the end of last June, the percentage of Portuguese users with internet connections above 20 Mbps already reached 94%. Of this group, 63.2% had above speeds of 30 Mbps and 36.5% rates exceeding 100 Mbps (over 11 percentage points over the same period of 2015).

But apart speed also increased the amount of connections. In total, the number of fixed access to the internet in Portugal increased by 1.8% over the first three months of the year and 8.6% compared to the same period. Consequently, the links by optical fiber (FTTH / FTTB) also increased by about 60 thousand accesses (6.8%) in the second quarter of the year and that LTE connections, in turn, registered 14,000 new accesses. A jump of 6.4% compared to the values ​​recorded in March.

In the market for operators, Meo continues to lead with a share of 42.5% in fixed internet services. However, this is also the only telecommunications company to register a decline in this segment with 3.5 percentage points less than in the same period last year. Moreover, both the US and Vodafone increased their share by 1.5 percentage points and 3 percentage points, respectively. In total, the US, already owned a share of 37%. Despite the increase, Vodafone is still far from competitors in the fixed access market with only 16.1%. Moreover, this is a market that generated about 834.5 million euros in revenues during the first six months of the year.

As for mobile broadband, also shows an increase in the number of users. In late June, the number of hits already came to 5.68 million, 2.5% more than in the first quarter and 8% more than in 2015. In this case, the ranking of operators remains, though with different quotas. At MEO it is a percentage of 43% to US 30.8% and 25.9% Vodafone. The US is the only one to record an increase year on year (plus 4.5%) and Vodafone is who has the biggest drop (3.6%). 166 million was the amount that reached revenues from mobile access to the internet during the first six months of 2016.

justify these values ​​also arise increases in traffic on both mobile and fixed services and is the first to register the highest increase over 10.1% in the second quarter.

Finally, the penetration rates of fixed access internet service are located at 31.5 per 100 inhabitants and 54.9 per 100 inhabitants in the field of mobile access with actual use.