The telecommunications sector in Mexico climbed 14.8 percent during the second quarter, the Telecommunications Sector Production Index (ITEL) shows. Growth in the quarter was boosted by satellite TV services, as well as increasing international incoming voice traffic and mobile telephony traffic.
Mexico added 1.9 million mobile customers in the April-June period, bringing the total mobile user base at 97.6 million at 30 June, with a service penetration of 86.9 lines per 100 inhabitants, according to the report by Mexican regulator Cofetel. Mexico ended the first quarter with 9.7 million mobile broadband users, up by nearly 73.9 percent year-on-year from 5.6 million in June 2011. The fixed telephony segment grew by 320,000 lines in the quarter to 20.1 million lines at end-June, or 17.9 lines per 100 inhabitants. National long-distance traffic slightly increased by 7.4 percent in the three months to June.
The cable TV subscriber base grew by 4.7 percent in the quarter, to 5.7 million total users. The number of DTH users increased by 25 percent, to nearly 6.3 million at 30 June. The number of MMDS users fell by 36.4 percent in the period, to 170,302 customers at end-June. The paging user base plunged by 56.1 percent during the period, to 3,804 subscribers at the end of June.
