The Supervisory Agency for Private Investment in Telecommunications (Osiptel) announced the participation of the operating companies in the market of mobile phone at the end of the first quarter of 2023. The report reveals that the company Claro displaced its biggest competitor Movistar and became the leading operator for the first time.
According to the results, the first place is occupied by Clearwhich during said period registered 12 million 391,504 mobile lines, which represents 29.99% of market share. While Movistar obtained 29.45% with 12 million 170,007 mobile lines.
Operators that registered the highest and lowest number of lines
According to the Punku computer portal, as of March 2023, Clear (+2.01%) and Entel (+3.41%) were the companies that reported the greatest increase in the number of lines, in relation to the same month of 2022. For their part, Movistar (-6.15%) and bitel (-3.00%) suffered the greatest reduction.
“The measures taken by the telecommunications regulatory entity, such as the number portability and the entry of new operatorshave contributed to a more intense competitive dynamic in the mobile market”, informed the executive president of Osiptel, Rafael Muente Schwarz.
Greater dynamism
As a result of the greater competitive dynamism, the difference in market share between Movistar and Claro It has been getting shorter year by year. In addition, the Spanish parent company has lost participation in relation to Entel, which is in third place with 22.96% as of March 2023, with 9,487,957 mobile lines.
Claro and Entel registered a greater number of lines in March 2023 compared to the previous year. Photo: Osiptel
While, bitel reaches a 17.11% stake (7 million 071,689). Lastly, the virtual mobile operators (OMV) Flash Mobile, Guinea Mobile, Suma Móvil and Dolphin register a joint participation of 0.48%.
According to the analysis, the number of mobile lines in service for three months, that is, those lines that have carried traffic at least once during the last three months, was 32.8 million as of March 2023. At the market share level, Claro leads with 37.52%, follows him Movistar with 24.41% and Entel with 23.44%. While, bitel obtains a 14.36% stake, and the OMVs 0.27%.
Who leads prepaid and postpaid lines?
At the close of the first quarter of 2023, Peru reached 41 million 319,013 moving lines, which represented a slight decrease of 1.0% compared to the similar period of the previous year. Of the total, a greater participation of the contract modality is observed (postpaid and control) which reached 41.7% of the mobile plant in March 2023, higher than the 39.6% share registered in March 2022.
Regarding the evolution of lines by contractual modality, it is observed that Clear it led the market for contract lines (postpaid and control) with 5 million 970,588 lines (34.6% participation in this segment); while Movistar ranks first in the prepaid lines market with 7 million 456,367 (31.0% share).
Source: Larepublica
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