L’AGCOMAuthority for Communications Guarantees, has published the data of thelast Observatory on Communications which takes into consideration the data for the first nine months of the year.
With its latest report, AGCOM has outlined a picture of ours nation in sharp change, projected towards the use of new technologies and the progressive abandonment of the copper cable. Although the overall number of telephone accesses to the landline has remained essentially unchangedsettling around the twenty million linesAGCOM reported that there was a progressive abandonment of the “classic” cable in copper in favor of more innovative technologies.
Compared to the previous year there was a decrease of approximately 1.2 million copper lines (which therefore decreased by more than eight million in the last four years). number that corresponds toincrease of the connections they use other types of technology: plus 790 thousand since the beginning of the year and, precisely, 1.2 million on an annual basis. Percentages on hand the copper went from making up nearly 62% of logins in 2018 to 23% today.
This sharp decline goes, as one might expect, hand in hand with theincreased access to high performance: AGCOM has seen an increase of approximately 350,000 FTTC lines, while FTTH has seen an increase of over 800,000 units on an annual basis. More reduced, but still present, is the growth of Fixed Wireless Access lines: around 70,000 units on an annual basis.
AGCOM therefore indicates a total number of nearly 19 million broadband lines (18.7 million to be precise); value that, overall, has changed little: more 50 thousand than in the past year. This figure is the result of the decline in DSL connections which was slightly exceeded by the new FTTH lines. An increase, on a unit basis, in data consumption is also shown: in the first nine months of 2022 there was an increase, compared to the same period of 2021, of around 6.8%.
Stay substantially unchanged sdivision of broadband market shares between different operators: TIM is confirmed in first place with the 40.3% (-1.4%), followed by Vodafone with the 16.8% (+0.4%), Fastweb with the 14.5% (-0.4%) and WindTre with the 14.2% (+0.3%). The remaining 13.9% is divided among all the other companies on the market (Eolo, Linkem, Sky and others)
