Osiptel: about 98% of households in Peru have at least one telecom service

As of the end of 2021 97.6% peruvian houses had access to at least one telecommunications service, according to Osiptel’s (ERESTEL) telecommunications services survey.

Telecommunications Private Investment Supervisory Authority (Osiptel) indicates that most households have better access to mobile phone and Internet services.

According to the report, at the national level, an estimated nine out of ten people (96.8%) used mobile services and eight out of ten (87.7%) used the Internet.

According to Pay TV, or by cable, this represents lower demand over the last five years. Households with access to this service increased from 48% in 2016 to
34.7% in 2021.

While in the case of fixed telephony, demand fell from 30.3% of households in 2016 to 14.6% of families in 2021.

How many services do Peruvian households have?

The Osiptel report indicates that only 9.3% of Peruvian households have access to four telecommunications services, i.e. have access to mobile, fixed, pay TV and Internet telephony.

On the other hand, 28.5%, or almost three out of every ten households, were infected with three Services communications.

While five out of ten Peruvian families use two telecommunications services offered in the Peruvian market.

In addition, 8.4% at home they have only one service, and 2.4% do not have any communication services.

Spent

Despite rising prices in most consumer categories, Osiptel says the telecommunications sector is one of the sectors that have shown the least growth in recent months.

“We have not reported any increase in prices for mobile internet services, and there are some increases for fixed internet services, but they always go hand in hand with speed increases (…) We can observe that the trend from Prices in the telecommunications sector, it is declining because there are always improvements in the plans,” commented Lenin Kiso Cordova, deputy director of regulation at Osiptel.

Osiptel did not specify what the average spending was, but indicated that the increase in family spending on communication services is also due to the fact that now more households use two or more of these services.

“Telecommunications spending increased between 2019 and 2021, not necessarily due to higher service prices, but because households now have more Telecommunication services. Now, the group of households that have two or three services has grown, so naturally the monthly cost of services will be higher, but this does not mean that the prices individually have risen,” Kiso explained.

It should be noted that, according to the INEI, last year prices in the category “Communication” would have grown by 1.35%. In June alone, telephone services would have raised prices by 1.79%.