The AGCOM released the latest data from the Communications Observatory , highlighting how at the end of September last year total access from the fixed network decreased by approximately 130 thousand units on the previous quarter and 390 thousand units compared to September 2019.

Those who surf from a fixed network do so increasingly on optical fiber : if in September 2016 beyond 85% of accesses to the fixed network were in copper , after four years these fell to less than 40% (with a decrease of 9.6 million lines). As a result, accesses through higher quality technologies have increased significantly, in particular FTTC (+7, 06 million units), FTTH (+1, 16 millions) and FWA (+ 610 thousand).

This trend is reflected in a increase in performance in terms of speed of marketed connections: in fact, lines with performance above 30 Mbit / s , in four years they have passed by less than 12, 7% at 64, 4% of the total of broadband and ultrabroadband lines . The competitive framework sees TIM as the largest operator with the 42, 1% , followed by Vodafone (16, 7%), Fastweb (15, 1%) and by Wind Tre (14, 0%).

In the mobile network segment, the total SIM (104, 1 million in September 2020) are down on an annual basis by approximately 220 thousand units ; M2M (Machine To Machine) SIMs grew by 2.8 million, while “voice only” and “voice + data” SIMs fell by three million units. Vodafone is leader (29, 1%) , followed by TIM (29, 0%) and Wind Tre (26, 1%), while Iliad represents 6.6% of the market .

Excluding M2M SIMs and counting only SIMs used by people (defined as human SIM), Iliad reaches 8.8%, while Wind Tre, despite a share down by 2.5 percentage points on an annual basis, remains the main operator with 28,2%, followed by Tim (26, 5%).

The growth of mobile broadband continues at a rapid pace: in the first 9 months of 2020 over 70% of the human lines carried out data traffic, with an average monthly data consumption estimated at about 9.2 GB / month, up by 48% compared to September 2019.