Audiovisual services are growing at a rate of 14% year-on-year

The CNMC publishes the telecommunications and audiovisual statistical data corresponding to the second quarter of 2015.

The National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) has released the telecommunications and audiovisual statistical data corresponding to the second quarter of 2015.

The total turnover of the sector in the second quarter of 2015 was 7,548 million euros, practically the same as that of the same quarter of the previous year. Added to the 5.8% increase in wholesale services was a slight drop in retail services, of 0.6%.

Audiovisual services and broadband services (both fixed and mobile) are the consumer services that increased their billing in the second quarter of 2015. Specifically, audiovisual services, with an increase of almost 14% year-on-year, have accumulated five consecutive quarters with positive variation rates, while fixed broadband experiences a year-on-year increase of 5.4% and mobile broadband, of 10.3%.

Regarding the data by operator, the income of the main operators remained the same compared to the second quarter of 2014, only Jazztel rose 2.6%. Movistar began to represent 45% of the sector's total after the purchase of DTS, and its income remained stable when compared to the income of both operators in the same sector the previous year. For Vodafone the income figure remained stable, compared to the sum of its income plus that of ONO in the second quarter of 2014.

In the field of free-to-air television, Atresmedia registered an increase of 13.4%, while Mediaset registered 3.3% less.

In the second quarter of the year, installed NGA accesses (access to new generation networks, which allow you to enjoy very high-speed connections) registered an annual growth rate of 41%.

In June 2015, the deployment of these accesses reached 29.5 million, of which 18.6 million corresponded to fiber to the home (FTTH)2, as opposed to the 10.3 million deployed a year earlier, which represented a growth of 80.8%.

On the other hand, accesses with DOCSIS 3.0 technology stood at around 10 million, with a discrete growth rate between 2% and 3% year-on-year.

NGA accesses on which some service is provided amounted to 5.3 million, 37.5% more than a year ago. Any landline, broadband or audiovisual service can be provided over these accesses.

In June 2015, fixed broadband connections with a contracted speed of 30Mbps or higher amounted to 3.8 million, 58.8% more than the same month in 2014. Thus, fixed broadband lines included in this speed range represented 29.1% of the total number of fixed broadband lines.

In June 2015, the total number of quadruple and quintuple packages reached 8.8 million, 1.7 million packages more than the previous year. The five-fold package, as in 2014, was the one that experienced the greatest growth, adding 1.3 million net registrations to register 2.7 million, compared to the 400,000 added by the four-fold package.

For their part, double telephone packages plus fixed broadband and triple packages, which also incorporate pay television, continued to decrease due to the migration of these packages to quadruple and quintuple modalities.

The number of pay TV subscribers has been growing since the last quarter of 2013, although in June 2015 it has remained stable. Subscribers to IP and cable television grew compared to the decrease registered by satellite subscribers.

On the other hand, the number of broadband lines, whether through fixed or mobile networks, continued to grow as in previous quarters. The total volume of mobile lines that were connected to the Internet grew by 11.3% year-on-year to 37.3 million. The reason was the significant increase in voice lines linked to mobile broadband, which have added almost 4 million lines since June 2014, reaching 35.7 million, while the datacard fleet stood at 1.7 million. For its part, 13 million fixed broadband lines were registered, which represented an increase of 4.7% in the last year.

In the evolution of fixed broadband lines by technology, the decrease in xDSL connections can be seen from the second quarter of 2014, coinciding with the increasingly significant presence of FTTH lines. Since June 2014, 1.3 million fiber lines have been added compared to a loss of 928 thousand with xDSL technology.