The fixed telephone service users generated, during the 2nd quarter of this year, 3.8 billion minutes in telephone calls, according to data disclosed by Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações (ANACOM). Out of this traffic volume, new providers forwarded 11,1%. During the same period, 23 thousand fixed telephone numbers were ported. The penetration rate of this service amounted to 42,2 telephones per one hundred inhabitants.
Disaggregating this traffic, the new providers forwarded 10.3% of national traffic during the second quarter of this year, against 10.2% during the 1st quarter; and 29.5% of international traffic, against 29.7% during the first quarter, respectively. All percentages relate to minutes of voice and Internet calls and the fixed-mobile traffic is not included.
In total, including both national and international traffic, 3.8 billion calls were forwarded during the second quarter, representing a drop of 0.7% than over the previous quarter. There was a decrease in national traffic that separately fell 1% between the first and the second quarters of the year. In turn, international traffic increased 8.4% between the periods under analysis.
Out of this traffic, 91.7% corresponds to connections made by direct access. The relevance of this type of connection is higher in national calls, regarding which there is a 92.4% preponderance, and lower in international calls, where it is the choice of users in 74,7% of the established connections, measured in conversation minutes.
At the end of June, there were in Portugal about 4.4 million of primary telephone accesses, 0.1% more than at the end of March. Thus, the service penetration rate amounted to 42.2 fixed telephones per one hundred inhabitants.
Out of all primary telephone accesses that existed in June, PT Comunicações run 96.4% of them and the remaining operators 3.6%. Regarding the total amount of accesses, 99.8% were supported in copper-wire, fibre optics and cable, the remaining part being supported in radio fixed wireless access technology (FWA).
During the same period, 23 thousand fixed numbers were ported, 110.7% more than in the previous quarter. As to the non-geographic numbers, namely the 800 and 808, the number of ported numbers increased 354.5%.
At the end of the 2nd quarter, there were 28 fixed telephone service licensed providers and 15 of them were in operation. Out of these, 8 ensured direct and indirect access traffic, 2 exclusively by direct access and 5 exclusively by indirect access.
Consult:
- Postal services https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?categoryId=277884
Consult press release:
- Fixed Telephone Service - new providers have 10.9% market-share https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=61031
