The number of broadband customers in Portugal grew by 8% in the third quarter of this year, for a total of 1,132,000 customers. High speed internet registered some 84,000 new customers during this period. In year-on-year terms the increase is 51.4%.
At the end of September, the number of ADSL customers reached 641,000, while 488,000 customers accessed broadband internet via cable-modem. ADSL is now the main access to broadband, accounting for 57% of total accesses. According to ANACOM data, nearly four out of every five new broadband accesses are ADSL.
ADSL broadband recorded 68,000 new customers in the third quarter, versus an increase of 16,000 new cable-modem access customers.
At the end of September the broadband internet penetration rate was 10.8%, 0.8 percentage points more than the figure for the end of the previous quarter.
The growth in the number of unbundled local loops, resulting from the operators' commitment to reaching customers directly and to the improved LLU (Local Loop Unbundling) conditions, have contributed to the expansion of broadband via ADSL technology.
