In the second quarter of this year the number of customers who access the Internet using broadband increased by 148.4%, compared to the same period last year, according to latest released by the Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações (ANACOM). The quarter on quarter change 21.1%.
This growth shows that the number of clients who access the Internet using broadband, including those who use cable access and ADSL has risen to 375 thousand. This represents 6.1% of all Internet access, while the remaining 93.9% is made up of dial up access, which grew by 6.5% between the first and the second quarters.
Overall, Internet subscriptions - including broadband and narrowband - grew to 6.16 million, giving a quarterly change of 7.3% and an annual change of 43.2%.
The rate of Internet use has reached 59.6 for every hundred people (it's possible that some people have more than one dial up subscription).
In the case of Broadband, 70% of clients use cable. The number of cable subscribers rose by 12.3% between the first and second quarters.
Even though ADSL still has a smaller slice of the Internet market, the number of users has been growing faster than cable.
In total ADSL access grew to 36 thousand during the second quarter, a rise of 47.1% on the first quarter.
1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | |
Total Number of clients | 172.698 | 645.146 | 2.110.828 | 3.459.640 | 5.165.057 |
Clients of Dial-up access | u.a. | u.a. | 2.083.613 | 3.360.324 | 4.902.294 |
Clients of Dedicated access | u.a. | u.a. | 2.061 | 2.709 | 3.272 |
Clients of ADSL access | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. | 2.886 | 52.005 |
Clients of Cable-modem access | n.a. | 297 | 25.154 | 93.721 | 207.486 |
u.a. - not available; n.a. - not applicable
2003 | ||
1st Quarter | 2nd Quarter | |
Total Number of clients | 5.739.659 | 6.157.566 |
Clients of Dial-up access | 5.426.986 | 5.779.763 |
Clients of Dedicated access | 3.263 | 3.168 |
Clients of ADSL access | 76.315 | 112.296 |
Clients of Cable-modem access | 233.095 | 262.339 |
Consult:
- Postal services https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?categoryId=277884