The fixed internet access service achieved a peak of more than 3 million connections at the end of the third quarter of the year, exceeding by 15.5% the amount reported in the same period of the previous year, reported the Private Investment Supervisory Agency in Telecommunications (Osiptel).
“This is the highest number of connections registered in the country and its impulse has been the result of competition between operating companies, with a greater offer of technologies with access to higher speeds of connectivity for the home, being that the increase in the last This quarter has been mainly in fiber optics, “said the regulator.
In detail, in this period, the hiring of the residential internet segment, dedicated to the home, rose by 17.6% to 2 million 792,649 connections compared to September 2020, causing its participation to correspond to 92.1% of the total reported .
Meanwhile, the commercial internet segment, dedicated to companies, fell by 4.5% to 239,815 connections compared to September last year and with this, its participation was 7.9%.
Fixed internet speeds
The information, processed by the Directorate of Regulatory Policies and Competition (DPRC), also revealed an increase in connections with download speed ranges greater than 16 Mbps (megabits per second) for fixed internet, equivalent to 88.7% of the total contracted, followed by connections greater than or equal to 8 Mbps but less than 16 Mbps (6.2%).
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