Tlc, fibre customers up 26.1% in one year
Figures as of January-March 2024: in fibre to the home (Ftth) Tim leads the way, but Iliad and Sky are advancing, with a share of over 5%. In mobile telephony, the number of switches continues: 7.8 million in the first quarter.
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Something is starting to move. The numbers are still far from optimal, with Italy lagging behind the European average in terms of adoption rate. More or less it can be said that the Belpaese is halfway to the European average.
Ftth: 1 million more customers
In any case, the +26.1% growth in Ftth lines (fibre to the home, the one with the highest performance and the subject of Open Fibre's and Fibercop's coverage plans) reported in the Agcom Communications Observatory released yesterday with numbers updated to the first quarter, is anything but negligible. On balance, this is 1.02 million more lines than a year earlier, at 4.93 million.
The fall of mobile telephony between 2019 and 2023
.Numbers, these, that are litmus tests of an ultra-wide band that is slowly (perhaps too slowly) making its way in Italy and that, speaking of fixed, represents at the moment the strategic pillar for a Tlc sector that has paid and is still paying a heavy duty to the downward trend of mobile. Agcom itself, in its communiqué presenting the data, recalled how 'in the last five years (2019-2023), the resources of electronic communications have shrunk by around EUR 2.93 billion (from EUR 30.07 billion to EUR 27.14 billion), more than 90% of which can be attributed to the reduction in revenues from services on the mobile network, a market characterised by accentuated competitive pressure'.
Growing ultrabroadband
.Fixed broadband and ultrabroadband lines grew by 112 thousand in one year. However, this figure is the result of a decrease of 615 thousand dsl lines and an increase of 727 thousand 'other technology' lines.
But who gains and who loses from this trend? Considering broadband and ultrabroadband as a whole, at the end of March 2024 Tim tops the list with 37.3% of accesses, followed by Vodafone (16.4%) and Wind Tre and Fastweb respectively 14.2% and 13.5%. This is followed by Tiscali (3.6%), Eolo and Sky Italia (both 3.5%). "Sky Italia, among the main players on the market, is the one that has shown the greatest dynamism on an annual basis, gaining 0.7 percentage points," the Authority wrote.
