Thursday, October 13, 2016

Fixed Internet Becomes Less Popular in Russia

The Russian Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications (Minsvyaz) made a report, comparing the fi rst, the second quarter of 2016 and the previous year. According to this document, the number of active broadband customers in Russia was reduced by 1.4% to slightly more than 26.9 million in the second quarter of 2016. The year-to-year growth of the customer base amounted to 6.4%.

Previously, the number of broadband subscribers fell only in the second quarter of 2014 – providers lost a little less than 68,000 subscribers, or a little less than 0.3%. A certain operator’s employee claims that 2016 brought the fi rst signifi cant downfall trend for the customer base. Minsvyaz has established that while the number of FIXED broadband users falls, the number of mobile internet subscribers grows. In the second quarter of 2016, the increase was 3.7% and there were 98.9 million mobile internet clients. The year-to-year growth reached 3.9%.  

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