📋 Tender Overview
During the fourth quarter of 2024, the average monthly consumption of mobile data from a cell phone was 11.34 % higher than that reported in the fourth quarter of 2023 (17.28 GB).
A consumption of 19.24 GB is equivalent to an average of two hours a day of continuous streaming video transmission
The use of internet services and applications through mobile phones continues to rise in Peru and, in the fourth quarter of 2024, the average monthly consumption of mobile internet studied from mobile phones reached a peak of 19.24 Gigabytes (GB), by mobile phone, reported the supervisory agency of private investment in telecommunications (Osiptel).
It is a growth of 11.34 % compared to the average monthly consumption reported in the fourth quarter of 2023 and 239.45 % compared to what was recorded in the same period of 2019 (5.67 GB).
The Punku computer portal (https://punku.osiptel.gob.pe) also revealed that as of December 2024, around 31.35 million mobile phones agreed to the Internet, 3.42 % more than what registered in a similar period of the previous year (30.31 million).
The analysis shows that the consumption of mobile internet data grows to a greater extent than the number of mobile phones that accessed the Internet, as a result of the increasingly intensive use of this type of service.
Participation by companies
With regard to mobile internet data traffic per company, to the fourth quarter of 2024, Bitel was the only mobile operator that increased its participation with respect to the same period of the previous year, evidencing a growth of 5.45 percentage points.
In the aforementioned period, Claro led the market share (36.54 %), followed by Entel (22.79 %), Bitel (21.32 %) and Movistar (19.33 %).
Regarding the number of mobile phones that accessed the Mobile Internet, as of December 2024, of course had the highest market share (35.71 %) above Movistar (23.36 %), Entel (20.75 %), Bitel (20.03 %), and other companies (0.15 %).
It should be noted that, compared to the previous year, Bitel was the operating company that evidenced the greatest advance (+1.47 %), while Movistar had the highest fall (-2.67 %).
The information of this report corresponds to the analysis prepared by the Directorate of Regulatory Policies and Competition (DPRC) of the Regulatory Entity, based on the information reported by the operating companies within the framework of the periodic information requirements (NRIP).
