In 1st quarter 2014, about 44% of fixed telephone accesses in Portugal were supported over alternative networks to traditional copper network (fibre, cable, GSM, UMTS and LTE). The installed stock of accesses comprised 4.5 million telephone lines.
PT Comunicações (PTC) continues to hold the majority of main access lines (55.9%), followed by ZON Optimus (NOS) (30.8%). Vodafone (with 7.3% of main access lines) was the operator which reported the highest rate of growth.
Over the same period there were 3.7 million fixed telephone service customers in Portugal with direct access, 0.2% more than in the previous quarter; of these, 51.3% were customers of PTC, 35.5% customers of ZON Optimus (NOS) and 7.1% customers of Vodafone.
Voice traffic originating on the fixed network in the first three months of 2014 fell 2.6% from the previous quarter to 1.9 billion minutes. About 480 million calls were made during the quarter being reported, with average call duration in line with both the previous quarter (4Q13) and with the same quarter of the previous year (1Q13).
In the quarter being reported, each main access consumed an average of 118 minutes per month in fixed-fixed calls, 11 minutes in fixed-mobile calls and 8 minutes in international calls.
Grupo PT reported a share of voice traffic of 51.8% in minutes, ZON Optimus 34.7% and Vodafone 7.5%.
Revenues from the fixed telephone service increased 4.4% in the first quarter to 382 million euros; this growth is mainly due to an increase in revenues derived from bundles that include the fixed telephone services - these rose 10.8% compared to the same quarter of 2013.
Nearly seven out of ten customers acquired the fixed telephone service as part of a bundle of services.
Consult the statistical report:
- Fixed Telephone Service - 1st quarter 2014 https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1253352
