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Peruvian mobile data traffic up nearly 80% in Q1

Thursday 1 July 2021 | 13:38 CET | News
Peruvian telecommunications regulator Osiptel said the country's mobile internet traffic surged 79 percent in first quarter of 2021 compared to the year-earlier quarter. In its latest quarterly update, the watchdog said 722,000 terabytes of data were processed in Q1 2021 by 27 million mobile internet lines, the latter up 11 percent on an annual basis and 3 percent on a quarterly basis. Claro (America Movil) had 9.2 million mobile broadband lines at the end of March, followed by Movistar (8.6 million) Entel (4.9 million) and Bitel (4.3 million).

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Categories: Mobile & Wireless
Companies: Bitel Peru / Claro Peru / Entel Peru / Movistar Peru / Osiptel
Countries: Peru
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