Number of fixed internet accesses reached 3.26 million in the second quarter – ANACOM – RTP

 According to the statistics of the National Communications Authority report (ANACOM) on the Internet access service for the second quarter of 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), following up LTE fixed 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 greater than or equal to 100 Mbps (megabit per second), which compares with 25.5% in the same period 2015, while 63.2% had speeds up to 30 Mbps and 20 Mbps in the case of the percentage increases 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 Internet access services 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 fixed residential broadband service 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 of Internet access service in fixed broadband have purchased the service within a service package.
 

 In terms of fixed accesses share, MEO was 42.5% (a decrease of 3.5 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 (+ 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 /PRAÇA).
 

 Revenues 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 revenue service mobile internet access reached 166 million in the first six months of 2016.