New data provided by ANACOM indicate that, in the third quarter of the year, mobile broadband Internet access traffic increased by 34.8% compared to the same period in 2022. According to the regulatory entity, The growth can be explained by the increase in the number of users and the increase in the intensity of use of the service.
During the period under review, average monthly traffic per Mobile Internet user grew 26.2%. On average, each user consumed 11 GB per month and average monthly PC/tablet/pen/router traffic reached 36.4 GB, an increase of 6.1%.
In all, the number of effective users of the mobile Internet access service reached the mark of 10.4 million, 6.6% more than in the same period last year. The regulatory entity details that the value corresponds to a penetration rate of around 99.3 per 100 inhabitants, an increase of 5.7 pp
The increase in the number of users results from increases in the number of people using the Internet on their cell phones (6.8% more) and users of the Internet access service via PC/tablet/pen/router (3.6% more). . ANACOM highlights, however, that the increase in these latest accesses “this quarter had the lowest year-on-year growth since the end of 2020”.
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Regarding the providers’ share, “MEO was the provider with the highest share of active mobile accesses with effective use”, with 38.4%. This is followed by NOS (29.5%) and Vodafone (28.2%). NOWO and Lycamobile had shares of 2.0% and 1.9%, respectively
MEO was also the provider with the highest share of mobile band Internet access subscribers (35.4%). They are followed by NOS with 32.4%, Vodafone with 28.1%, NOWO with 2.3% and Lycamobile with 1.9%. Vodafone had the highest share of mobile broadband Internet traffic (35.9%)followed by NOS and MEO (35.0% and 28.2%, respectively).
It is estimated that, at the end of the third quarter, 15.1% of mobile service users and 19.8% of mobile Internet users used the 5G network. The number of mobile Internet users using 5G was 2 million, a figure that corresponds to a penetration of 19.6 per 100 inhabitants.
Traffic generated on 5G networks in the third quarter represented 11.3% of total mobile data trafficreaching 6.2 GB per user per month, says ANACOM.
The regulator states that, in the period under analysis, the mobile access penetration rate reached 179.8 per 100 inhabitants. Considering only mobile accesses with effective use (excluding Machine-to-Machine – M2M), the penetration rate in Portugal would be 130.1. Taking into account mobile accesses sold together with fixed services, the penetration rate was 56.5 per 100 inhabitants.
The number of accesses prepared to use mobile services totaled 18.8 million. Of this set, 13.6 million (or 72.4% of the total) were actually used. “Excluding the number of accesses allocated to PC/tablet/pen/router, the number of mobile accesses amounted to 12.9 million”, indicates ANACOM.
The number of subscribers who actually used the service increased by 241 thousand (plus 1.8%) compared to the same period in 2022. According to the regulatory entity, the evolution is explained by the greater adoption of postpaid and hybrid plans, which represent 67.3% of the total accesses actually used.
The number of prepaid plans has once again seen a decreasing trenddecreasing for the fourth consecutive quarter compared to the same period in 2022 (minus 7.1%).
Mobile voice traffic in minutes decreased by 3.9%. The number of conversation minutes per mobile voice access was, on average, 210 per month, representing close to 7 minutes per day. Compared to the same quarter last year, average monthly traffic decreased by 12 minutes (5.6% less). The average call duration was two minutes and 52 seconds per call, minus three seconds (minus 1.4%).
2023-12-04 07:41:00
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