Honduras: Telecommunications Market - 2016

As of December 2016, 7.8 million mobile telephone lines and 1.9 million mobile internet subscribers were recorded, demonstrating growth of 1.5% and 17% compared to the previous quarter.

Monday, June 12, 2017

From the report "Performance of the Telecommunications Sector December 2016" by Conatel: 

FIXED TELEPHONE SECTOR: At the end of this quarter, fixed telephone lines resulted in a total of 442,929 subscribers.  The number of landline users decreased by 4.22% over the previous quarter, with both Hondutel and sub-operators experiencing losses in the number of subscribers. 

See also "Central America: Call Phone Imports Down 6%"

MOBILE TELEPHONE SECTOR: Mobile telephone lines reached a total of 7,832,802 subscribers at the end of this quarter. The number of mobile phone users grew by 1.5% over the previous quarter. 
Of the total number of mobile subscribers in the country, 581,538 subscribers belong to the post-payment modality, which represents 7.42% of total subscribers and 7,251,264 belong to the pre-payment modality, representing 92.58% of total subscribers.

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) SECTOR: The number of subscribers of fixed internet services reached a total of 222,174 at the end of this quarter of the year, showing a growth of 6.65% with respect to the previous quarter. The number of subscribers of mobile internet services reached a total of 1,934,419 observing a growth of 17.25% with respect to the previous quarter.

See complete report (In Spanish)


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