The Danish Energy Authority said the cable television network is now the leading broadband service medium, overtaking copper for the first time and accounting for one third of subscriptions. Fibre broadband has grown the most, said its report ’Telestatistics – first half-year 2019’. There are now more than 1 million subscriptions for internet service at 100 Mbps in download speed or faster.
The authority said copper accounts for 32 percent of broadband subscriptions and fibre (excluding fibre-LAN) accounts for 27 percent. The number of fibre subscriptions increased by 13.8 percent or 83,000 compared with H1 2018. The total number of broadband subscriptions increased by 0.7 percent to almost 2.55 million.
The number of subscriptions for broadband with a minimum download speed of 100 Mbps went up by 17 percent from 867,000 in mid-2018 to almost 1.02 million, making up 40 percent of all fixed broadband subscriptions. Of those, 47 percent were via cable-TV network and 38 percent via fibre. The number of contracts for service at 100 Mbps or more that were on fibre, went up by 4.5 percentage points or by 96,000 year on year.
Turning to mobile services, the number of contracts for mobile voice calls only dropped to 340,000 in the first half of 2019 from 346,000 a year earlier. The number of standard mobile contracts including data grew to 6.70 million from 6.64 million. The number of data-only contracts fell to 1.16 million from 1.18 million a year earlier.
In the first half of the year, average monthly fixed internet traffic per subscriber (uploads and downloads) climbed by 16.6 percent to 234.1 GB from 200.8 GB a year earlier. Total traffic on the fixed network grew by 17.7 percent to just over 3.3 million terabytes in H1 2019.
Average mobile data traffic per mobile subscriber swelled to 9.0 GB in H1 2019 from 6.8 GB a year earlier. Total traffic on the mobile network, for both uploads and downloads, surged by 40.7 percent year on year, to 426,000 TB from 303,000 TB a year earlier.
Looking at mobile telecoms prices, the authority said that in July 2019, an average small bundle would cost DKK 79 and provide six hours of talk time, unlimited SMS/MSS, and 6 GB of data with 4 GB of that usable in the EU. This was an hour’s more talk time than in July 2018 for the same price, with 1 GB more data overall and 1 GB more for use in the EU.
The average large mobile bundle cost DKK 109 in July for unlimited calls/MMS/texts and 40 GB data of which 6 GB could be used in the EU. This was a drop in price from DKK 129 in July 2019 but that provided unlimited data of which only 5 GB could be used in the EU.
