At the end of September 2004 there were 748,984 broadband Internet users in Portugal, 13.5% or 87,000 more customers than in the previous quarter. In year-on-year terms, growth was 75.8%. The broadband Internet access penetration rate, by ADSL and cable-modem, stood at 7.1%, versus 6.3% in the previous quarter.
At the end of September, 398,000 broadband customers accessed the Internet by cable-modem and 348,000 by ADSL. Cable access continued to predominate, with 53.1%, while ADSL accounted for 46.5% of accesses. Dedicated access, with 3,000 customers, accounted for 0.4% of the total.
ANACOM data indicates that ADSL access registered quarterly growth of 19%, for 55,000 new customers, while the quarterly growth of cable access was 8.7%, corresponding to 32,000 new accesses.
Regarding dial-up access, done via a telephone line, there were 5,528,000 customers at the end of September, raising to 6,277,000 the total number of Portuguese Internet users.
Between July and September 2004 the number of dial-up access grew by 8.17% over the previous quarter, representing an increase of 417,000 customers in that period. In year-on-year terms, there was 49% growth in the number of dial-up access customers.
It must nevertheless be noted that the number of 6,277,000 Internet users does not properly reflect the situation in Portugal, as in dial-up access it frequently occurs that a user is the customer of various Internet access providers, which inflates the number of Internet users. Information obtained in a February 2004 ANACOM sampling study indicates that Internet service's penetration rate in the residential market stood at 26%
At the end of the third quarter there were 36 entities registered and authorised to provide Internet access service in Portugal, of which 26 were operational.
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