There are significant differences in the penetration of services associated with the nature of the activity exercised by the survey's respondents.
Penetration of the telephone service at a fixed location exceeds 93 percent across most sectors. The construction sector is the only sector where FTS penetration is lower (84.5 percent - increasing 14.5 percentage points since 2012).
The situation is similar in the case of fixed Internet, with penetration rates close to 90 percent in all sectors except construction where penetration is reported at 85.3 percent.
However, the Construction sector has the highest penetration rate when it comes to the mobile telephone service (96.6 percent) and when it comes to mobile Internet (62 percent). As such construction stands out from the remaining sectors which report penetration rates close to 90 percent in the case of MTS and between 50 and 55 percent in the case of mobile Internet.
Subscribers to STVS are, in the most part, from "other services"1 (34 percent), which includes “accommodation and food service activities”.
Graph 2 - Possession of services by sector of activity
Unit: %.
Source: ICP-ANACOM, Survey on the use of electronic communications services, SME, December 2014
Base: All companies with fewer than 250 staff according to sector of activity
Note 1: Estimates: (#) Unreliable estimate; (*) Acceptable estimate; (no symbol) Reliable estimate. The minimum values reported take reliable and acceptable estimates into account, whereas lower values may exist based on unreliable estimates (#) with a variation coefficient equal to or great than 25 percent.
Note 2: FTS - Fixed telephone service; MTS - Mobile telephone service; FIAS – Fixed Internet access service; MIAS – Mobile Internet access service; STVS – Subscription TV.
In the majority of sectors considered, Internet penetration among Portuguese companies is very high and ranked near the top among the EU28. The exceptions are Manufacturing and Construction which, while reporting high penetration rates (96 percent), are ranked 20th and 17th in the EU28 respectively.
|
EU28 (%) |
Portugal (%) |
PT ranking in EU28 |
Diff. vs. EU28 (p.p) |
|
|
C - Manufacturing |
97 |
96 |
20th |
-1 |
|
D+E - Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning Supply; water supply; Sewerage, waste management and remediation activities |
98 |
100 |
1st |
2 |
|
F - Constriction |
97 |
96 |
17th |
-1 |
|
G - Wholesale and retail trade; repair of Motor vehicles and motorcycles |
97 |
99 |
8th |
2 |
|
H - Transportation and storage |
97 |
100 |
1st |
3 |
|
I - Accommodation and food service activities |
99 |
100 |
1st |
1 |
|
J - Information and communication |
99 |
100 |
1st |
1 |
|
L - Real estate activities |
93 |
100 |
1st |
7 |
|
M - Professional, scientific and technical activities |
99 |
100 |
1st |
1 |
|
N - Administrative and support service activities |
96 |
100 |
1st |
4 |
Unit: %, p.p.
Source: Eurostat, European ICT survey: "Information and Communication Technologies in enterprises", 2014
Base: Companies with 10 or more employees according to sector of activity.
Notes
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1 "Other services" include the following branches of activity H (transportation and storage), I (accommodation and food service activities), J (information and communication activities), K (financial services and insurance), L (real estate activities), M (professional, scientific and technical activities) and N (administrative and support service activities).
