Data on Internet Access Services as of December 31, 2018

Total Internet connections increased by about 4.9% between December 2017 and December 2018 to 441 million. Mobile Internet connections increased 5.7% year-over-year to 331 million in December 2018, while fixed connections grew to 111 million – up about 2.5% from December 2017. Over 54% of connections were at 100 Mbps or more (downstream). Nearly 75% of connections were 25 Mbps or more. The median downstream speed of all reported fixed connections was 100 Mbps. The percentage of fixed connections with a downstream speed of at least 25 Mbps has grown from 54% (or 55 million connections) in December 2015 to 76% (or 85 million connections) in December 2018. Over the same period, the percentage of fixed connections with downstream speeds of less than 3 Mbps has decreased from 6% (or 6 million connections) in December 2015 to 2% (or about 2.4 million connections) in December 2018. More than 57% of upstream connections were at least 6 Mbps and nearly 78% of upstream connections were 3 Mpbs or more. The median upstream speed was 10 Mbps.