“Of the 12 million mobile broadband internet connections, 10.7 million are 3G and 3G+ connections and 709 thousand are 4G connections, generating in 2014 an overall traffic of over 46 thousand terabytes,” ANCOM said in a statement Tuesday.
Subscription-based mobile broadband internet connections exceeded prepaid card-based internet connections, reaching 6.4 million, compared with 5.6 million.
The increase of the total number of broadband internet connections also led to a higher penetration rate of mobile internet connections to 60.2%, up by 12 percentage points compared with 2013 and by 25 percentage points from the end of 2012.
Fixed broadband internet connections rose 5.8% on the year in 2014, to 4 million connections, generating a total annual traffic of 3.6 million terabytes.