The telecommunications market in 2018

It is The Agcom report has just been published, updated in March 2018, divided into sections dedicated to the media, telecommunications and postal services.

From this report we extrapolate the most relevant data. interesting data relating to the landline and mobile network, data traffic and the audience of the main social networks in Italy.

The document opens with a review of the main trends of 2017 in the sector in question, which saw a recovery in resources capable of pushing the turnover to 32.2 billion euros. Investments in infrastructure also grew by 1.6%, over 7 billion euros.

An interesting result also shows how mobile telephony is dominating the telecommunications market. This phenomenon is also recorded in spending on data services versus spending on voice services. In 2017 it is mobile data consumption was overtaken with a growth of 48%.

Broadband accesses totaled 16.7 million, an increase of 840,000 units. in the last year, marked at the same time by a decrease in DSL lines and a growth in broadband accesses using other technologies of 2.59 million units.

NGA (New Generation Access) accesses went from 2.59 million to 5.3 million, a figure that indicates a greater diffusion of fiber optic networks, capable of providing broadband access services with more efficient characteristics. advanced.

In this regard, the increase in lines with higher speeds should be highlighted. higher than 30 mbit/s, which in March 2018 is 31.2% of the total, exceeding the lines with speed less than 10 mbit/s. Ultrabroadband accesses grew by 2.4 million units in a year, reaching a total of 5.2 million accesses.

The number of SIMs with Internet access is grew by 3.2% in one year, for a total of 52 million units; data traffic, consequently, is grown a lot since 2017, precisely 54.1% more. Average unit consumption currently amounts to 3.42 gigabytes per month.

The data relating to the audience of social networks confirm the growing trend of Facebook (+11% of users on an annual basis, although they are active for fewer hours per day than in the past), Instagram (which is growing by 22%), followed by LinkedIn, Twitter and Pinterest.

The decline in the audience of Google+ and Tumblr is not surprising, while it is The number of unique Snapchat users is rather stable, 1.6 million in March 2018 (it was 1.7 million a year ago).