The demand for reliable and faster domestic internet connections has seen Chilean fixed broadband accesses rise to over two thirds (67.5%) of the country’s homes, according to the latest update from telecommunications regulator Subtel. The number of fixed internet accesses in Chile climbed 13.4 percent year on year to over 4.2 million at the end of the third quarter of 2021, with fibre-based connections accounting for 52.9 percent (2.2 million) of the total, followed by HFC with 38.9 percent.
Subtel added that data traffic over fixed networks hit rose 10.9 percent year on year to an average of 448.2GB per line in September 2021 compared to 14.9GB per mobile line. VTR remains the country’s leading fixed broadband provider with a 29.8 percent share, followed by Movistar (28.8%) and Mundo (13.5%).
The country’s mobile internet connections also increased, by 12.4 percent year on year, to 22.3 million, the vast majority of which (20.5 million) were 4G accesses. Entel still has over a third (34.6%) of the country’s mobile internet customers, followed by WOM (23.8%) and Movistar (21.3%).
