Number of fixed Internet accesses reached 3.26 million in the second quarter – Eastern Açoriano

The total number of fixed Internet access reached 3.26 million at the end of the second quarter, an increase of 1.8% over the previous quarter and 8.6% from the same period of 2015 released today ANACOM.

according to the statistical report of the National Communications Authority (ANACOM) on the internet access service for the second quarter 2016, “the greatest contribution to growth in the number of access was given by the optical fiber, which grew 6.8% this quarter (60,000 hits), followed by fixed LTE technology, which rose 6.4% in the second quarter (over 14 000 hits). “

at the end of June, 36.5% of users had access to the internet with speeds equal to or greater than 100 Mbps (megabit per second), value compared with 25.5% in the same period 2015, while 63.2% had speeds above 30 Mbps and, in the case of 20 Mbps, the percentage rises to 94%, according to the telecommunications regulator.

the core technology of internet access in fixed broadband was the cable, with one third of all accesses, followed by ADSL, with 30.4% of total accesses. Third, according to ANACOM, came the internet over fiber optics, which represented 29.1% of accesses, followed by LTE at a fixed location with 7.1%.

As for mobile broadband the number of users with effective utilization increased by 2.5% over the previous quarter and 8% over the same quarter, reaching 5.68 million.

at the end of the second quarter, the penetration of service internet access stood at 31.5 per 100 inhabitants, in the case of fixed access, and 54.9 per 100 inhabitants for mobile access with actual use.

Since the penetration of the service of residential fixed broadband was 66.1 per 100 private households and 45.5 per 100 conventional dwellings.

ANACOM estimates that at the end of the second quarter, about 97.2% of customers internet access service broadband have purchased the service within a service package.

in terms of fixed accesses share, MEO was 42.5% (one 3.5 break percentage points over the same quarter), followed by the US with a share of 37% (1.5 percentage points) and Vodafone with 16.1% (up 3 percentage points).

in the case of mobile broadband, the share of active customers of MEO was 43% (minus 0.8 percentage points year on year), followed by the US with 30.8% (up 4.5 percentage points) and Vodafone, with 25.9% (minus 3.6 percentage points).

the internet access traffic broadband increased by about 2.7% due to the rise in fixed broadband traffic (plus 2.4%), which represented 95.6% of the total, says the regulator. But the traffic of mobile accesses increased by 10.1% in the quarter, representing 4.4% of the total.

The average monthly traffic of fixed broadband was 58.2 gigabytes (GB), while traffic generated by mobile broadband customers with actual use was 1.55 GB per month (8.7 GB per month in the case of tablet / PC).

the revenue from the fixed internet access service ‘stand-alone’ and service packages that include this service totaled in the first six months of 2016, about 834.5 million euros, while revenues from mobile internet access services reached 166 million in the first six months of 2016.