📋 Tender Overview
The competitive dynamics in the mobile service market continues to intensify and according to the PUNKU computer portal of the Supervisory Agency for Private Investment in Telecommunications (OSIPTEL), two of the operating companies increased their participation by more than 1% at the end of the first half of this year.
These are Entel and Bitel whose participation grew 1.30 and 1.42 percentage points, respectively in the last year. For its part, Claro increased its participation by 0.15 percentage points in the same period.
Meanwhile, Movistar lost 2.90 percentage points of share in the mobile market, so the distance with Entel was reduced to 5.41 percentage points.
According to data processed by the Directorate of Regulatory Policies and Competition (DPRC) of OSIPTEL, 29.96% of mobile lines nationwide belong to the operating company Claro which, as of June 2023, maintains the first place in market share with more than 12.32 million mobile lines.
In second place is Movistar which, with more than 11.61 million mobile lines, has 28.23% market share. Next were Entel with 9.39 million lines and 22.82% share; and Bitel with 7.62 million lines and 18.52% share.
While the other mobile operators (Flash Mobile, Guinea Mobile, Suma Móvil, Dolphin Mobile and Dolphin Telecom) together added 193 083 lines, representing 0.47% market share.
According to the information that the operating companies report to OSIPTEL, at the end of the first half of 2023, Peru reached 41.14 million mobile lines, a growth of 0.09% compared to the similar period of the previous year (41.10 million lines).
Movistar leads prepaid segment and Claro, the contract segment
The analysis evidenced the growth of the lines under the contract modality (postpaid and control), which reached 42.24% of the mobile plant in June 2023 (17.38 million lines), higher than the 40.01% participation registered in June 2022. Meanwhile, the lines of the prepaid segment reached 57.76% of the mobile plant (23.76 million lines).
By companies, Movistar led the prepaid segment with 6.85 million lines (28.83% share), while Claro led the contract lines market (postpaid and control) with 6.01 million lines (34.61% share in that segment).
