Executive summary
- In June 2019, telecommunication prices, measured by the sub-index of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), decreased 0.48% from the previous month. This reduction resulted from changes in bundled offers and mobile Internet tariffs via PC/tablet by one provider.
- The average rate of change in telecommunications prices in the last twelve months was -0.61%, 1.48 percentage points (p.p.) below the CPI (0.87%).
- Compared with the corresponding month of the previous year, the variation in prices was -3.76%. From November 2017, the variation of year-on-year telecommunication prices was less than CPI growth.
- In June 2019, and for the first time since April 2011, the variation in telecommunications prices in Portugal was lower than that of the EU average (-0.3 pp). However, the average rate of change in the last twelve months for telecommunications prices in Portugal was the 16th highest among EU countries, where the greatest price increase was Greece (+4.8%) while the highest price decrease was the Netherlands (-4.3%). On average, telecommunication prices in the EU fell by 0.3%.
- In absolute terms, and according to EUROSTAT, in 2018, communications prices in Portugal were 19.7% above the EU average.
