fixed telephone service earned $ 1.8 billion in 2015 – Daily News – Lisbon

The penetration of fixed telephone service reached “the highest ever” in Portugal.

total revenues for the fixed telephone service increased by 16.7% in 2015 over the same period to 1.838 billion euros, today announced ANACOM.

in a statement, the National Communications Authority (ANACOM) says total revenues of the service, including the individual revenue and revenue packages in the fixed service is included (8 out of 10 customers fixed service subscribe service packages) increased 16.7% from 2014 to 1838 million.

in addition, reports that late last year there were 3.86 million fixed telephone customers direct access, 2.9% more than in the previous year.

MEO was in the lead with 46.3% of these customers, against 49.8% in 2014, followed by the US with 36.6% of customers, against 34.9% the previous year, although it has been Vodafone operator more customers won in net terms, increasing its share to 12.3%, which represents an increase of 2.7 points year on year.

the regulator points out that the penetration of fixed telephone service reached “the highest ever” in Portugal, reaching 45.1 lines per 100 inhabitants, 0.9 percentage points more than in the previous year.

“This is the higher penetration rate since the ANACOM compiles this information and results from the expansion of the service packages that include fixed service “, he explains.

Nevertheless, he says, voice traffic in minutes fell 15% in 2015 to 6,462 million minutes, above the average reduction in the last five years.

for the fall recorded mainly contributed to reductions in fixed-to-fixed traffic and substitution of fixed telephone by phone following the growth the 4P packages (internet, television, mobile and telephone) and 5P (internet, television, mobile phone and ‘tablet’) that include mobile services and free calls to all networks.

“to this joint It was further the fact that it is to increase the penetration of new forms of communication based on the Internet via over the Top operators (OTT). In fact, the percentage of individuals in early 2015 effected voice or video calls over the Internet in Portugal, through OTT, was 37%, equal to the average value of the European Union to 28, according to the ‘Information and communication technologies in Households and by individuals’, promoted by the European Commission, “reads the statement.

the growth of the service’s penetration resulted from the increase of accesses using fiber optic networks, cable and mobile technologies GSM / UMTS / LTE now accounting for 41.8% of total accesses, which more than offset the decline in analogue and ISDN lines.

in terms of market shares in the voice traffic, MEO broke for the first time the barrier of 50%, as had 47.4% of voice minutes, against 50.5% in 2014. the US was 33.2%, virtually unchanged from the previous year, and Vodafone rose its share by 2.8 points to 12.5%.