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Broadband usage in Romania – generated mostly by fixed internet

4.04.2017
 
 
“Broadband internet traffic over the 19 million fixed and mobile connections in Romania reached almost 2.7 million TB in the first half of 2016. Despite the increasing usage of smartphones or tablets for internet access, these mobile devices generate only 3% of the total traffic. In the future, Romania is expected to follow the European trend, i.e. its mobile data traffic to witness rapid growth (8 times, by 2020), especially on smartphones and tablets, rather than on laptops”,declared Eduard LOVIN, ANCOM Executive Director for Regulation, during this year’s edition of the event WeLoveDigital.
 
Connections
Mobile broadband connections generating traffic increased by 15% in the first half of 2016, up to 14.8 million, while fixed connections increased by 5%, to 4.3 million, compared to the similar period of 2015.
 
Connection infrastructure
Romanians access fixed broadband internet using high and very high speed connections, over state-of-the art infrastructure that enables more than half of the fixed connections (56%) to reach best-effort speeds of at least 100Mbps, 31% - best-effort speeds between 10Mbps and 100Mbps, and only 13% of these connections enable 10Mbps or lower speeds. In this context, European statistics as of end-June 2016[1] show that Romania ranks first in the EU as regards the number of connections of 100Mbps or higher.
Moreover, active 4G connections kept expanding, reaching 3.7 million at mid-2016 (compared to 1.4 million at mid-2015), i.e. over one quarter of all the mobile broadband internet connections.
 
Traffic
In H1 2016, Romanian users generated on the fixed connections 2.6 million TB total download and upload traffic, with an average monthly consumption per user of 101 GB, whereas mobile equipment generated 0.07 million TB traffic. The average monthly traffic per mobile connection almost doubled compared to H1 2015, from 0.33 GB to 0.63 GB.


[1]According to the European Commission’s Digital Agenda Scoreboard key indicators, available here.