Spain added 122,834 broadband customers in January to reach 8.15 million at the end of the month, according to telecommunication regulator CMT. The January figure is up 19.9 percent on the year-earlier month. The total number of lines represents a penetration rate of 18 lines for every 100 inhabitants. Alternative operators are continuing to invest in infrastructure and local loop unbundling to deliver broadband. In January they started using 42,387 local loops from Telefonica, to reach a total of 1.4 million, or 17.1 percent of all broadband lines. The number of unbundled loops was up 41.8 percent versus January 2007. As for mobiles, the CMT calculates that there were 496,773 new lines in January. This took the overall figure to 49.57 million mobile lines, for a 109.7 percent penetration rate. Including M2M lines, the total rose by 7.6 percent year-on-year to reach 50.69 million.
