📋 Tender Overview
At the end of the first half of this year, more than 39% of connections have this range of download speed.
The sustained growth in the number of fixed internet connections with fiber optics has given users access to higher browsing speeds. Thus, the percentage of connections that have download or upload speeds above 200 Mbps (megabits per second) grew more than eightfold, from 161,672 connections in June 2023 to 1,525,903 connections at the end of June 2024, according to the information reported by the operating companies to the Private Investment Oversight Agency in Telecommunications (OSIPTEL).
According to information published in the PUNKU computer tool (https://punku.osiptel.gob.pe/), the percentage of connections with contracted download speeds greater than 200 Mbps went from 4.80% at the end of the first half of 2023 to 39.31% in June of this year, which meant an increase of 34.51 percentage points in just one year.
In addition, connections with download speeds greater than or equal to 100 Mbps, but less than 200 Mbps, went from 20.80% in June 2023 to 37% in June of this year; In this way, the number of contracted connections with this speed range doubled in just one year, going from 700,919 connections in June 2023 to 1,436,236 in June 2024.
Meanwhile, fixed internet connections with lower download speed ranges continue to decline. Connections with speeds greater than or equal to 50 Mbps, but less than 100 Mbps, represented 13.90% of the total connections as of June 2024; while those with speeds less than 50 Mbps, reached 9.79% of the total connections.
