Statistics

86.4% of Portuguese households subscribe to high-speed services at a fixed location.

While postal traffic decreased by 2.8% in the 1st half of 2023, parcel traffic increased by 14.6% and total revenues increased by 4.5%.

The number of subscription TV subscribers increased by 2.6% compared to the same period of 2022. 62.4% of all subscribers had the optical fibre service.

Fibre optics was the main form of access to fixed broadband Internet, with 65% of total accesses.

In the first half of 2023, each mobile broadband user consumed an average of 9.2 GB per month.

In the first half of 2023, the number of fixed telephone subscribers increased by 1.7%. However, traffic decreased by 17.1% year-on-year.

In the first half of 2023, 4/5P offers were the most used, with 2.5 million subscribers. The average monthly revenue per subscriber for all service bundles recorded its highest annual growth since 2016.

In 2022, international parcels accounted for 30.7% of traffic and 50.8% of revenues. Around 98.7% of international parcels received in Portugal and 84.8% of outbound international parcels originated from or were destined for countries in the European Economic Area.

At the end of March 2023, there were 9.9 million actual users of the mobile Internet access service in Portugal (7.5% more than in the same quarter of 2022), with each user consuming an average of 8.8 GB per month.

Fibre optics was the main form of access to fixed broadband Internet, with 64.4% of total accesses. Total fixed broadband Internet traffic increased by 16.4%, and the average monthly traffic per access was 270 GB.