Peru cancels tender to manage the RDNFO network
After suffering a sharp retraction in the number of subscriptions and revenue during 2020 due to the pandemic, Peru's telecom sector managed to stage a small recovery in the first half of 2021. The extent of the decline, however, will take some time to recover from fully. It will likely be two to three years before penetration rates return to the peak levels last seen in 2018. This is especially true given the overwhelming influence of mobile on Peru's telecommunications market, which now commands almost 95% of all connections.Peru's fixed-line teledensity continued its slow but relentless decline into obscurity, dropping below 7% at the end of 2021. Investment in network infrastructure, where it exists, is mainly focused on rolling out fibre cable for fixed broadband services in (mainly) urban areas. Fixed broadband penetration inched higher to reach 8.4% at the end of 2020, a positive result that reflected the shift to working from home during enforced lockdowns at the start of the year. Yet Peru has a relatively low level of computer use, and prices for fixed broadband services are among the highest in Latin America. The overwhelmingly preferred internet access platform will remain the smartphone, with a further 8.6% growth in the number of mobile broadband subscriptions expected in 2021.
One drawback to success in the mobile broadband market was the decision in January 2021 by Google's parent company Alphabet to shut down Project Loon. This global endeavour involved the use of high-altitude balloons to provide internet access to remote, underserved areas around the world. In Peru, Loon had signed a deal with Telefónica to provide internet services in areas of the Amazon rainforest as part of the Telefónica/Facebook ˜Internet para Todos (IPT) project launched in 2018. However, Alphabet was unable to make the venture financially sustainable.
Key Developments:
- MTC cancels tender to select a company to operate the RDNFO;
Regulator fines Movistar and Claro for breaching MNP rules, imposes new requirements on Movistar to provide customers with greater transparency, announces $415 million investment to extend LTE coverage to 2,600 underserved areas.
MTC issues Fibertel with a 20-year MVNO licence to offer B2B-focused services and dark fibre access over a nationwide fibre network.
Pacific Cable lands at Lurin.
Eutelsat Communications enters JV with Telespazio allowing the latter to use Ku Band capacity on the EUTELSAT 117 West B satellite to provide telecom services to 1,300 underserved areas in the Peruvian Amazon.
Report includes the regulator's market data reports to March 2022, telcos' financial and operating data updates to June 2022, updated Telecom Maturity Index charts and analyses, recent market developments.
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Table of Contents
- Key statistics
- Regional Latin America Market Comparison
- Market characteristics
- Market Leaders
- Market Challengers
- Market Emergents
- TMI versus GDP
- Mobile and mobile broadband penetration
- Fixed versus mobile broadband penetration
- Country overview
- Telecommunications market
- Regulatory environment
- Historical overview
- Regulatory authorities
- Ministry of Transport, Communications, Housing and Construction (MTC)
- Osiptel
- Fixed-line developments
- Telecommunications Investment Fund (FITEL)
- National Telecommunications Program (PRONATEL)
- Interconnect
- Access
- Number Portability (NP)
- Single concession regime
- Mobile network developments
- Spectrum regulations
- SIM card registration
- Roaming
- Mobile Number Portability (MNP)
- Mobile Termination Rate (MTR)
- Mobile market
- Mobile statistics
- Mobile infrastructure
- 5G
- 4G (LTE)
- 3G
- GSM
- Other infrastructure developments
- Mobile data
- Mobile broadband
- Mobile content and applications
- m-commerce
- Major mobile operators
- Movistar Perú (Telefonica Móviles Perú)
- Claro Perú (América Móvil)
- Entel Perú
- Viettel Peru (Bitel)
- Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs)
- Fixed-line broadband market
- Market analysis and statistics
- Government initiatives
- Hybrid fibre coax (HFC) networks
- Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) networks
- Fibre-to-the-Premises (FttP) networks
- Other fixed broadband services
- WiMAX
- Satellite broadband
- Digital economy
- Internet of Things
- E-Government
- E-Learning
- e-Commerce
- Fixed network operators
- Movistar Perú (Telefonica)
- Claro Perú (América Móvil)
- Americatel Perú (Entel)
- Gilat To Home Perú (GHP)
- Telecommunications infrastructure
- National telecom network
- Wireless Local Loop (WLL)
- International infrastructure
- Submarine cable networks
- Satellite networks
- Appendix - Historic data
- Glossary of abbreviations
- Related reports
List of Tables
List of Charts
List of Exhibits
Companies Mentioned
- Telefonica del Perú (Movistar)
- Amorica Móvil (Claro Perú)
- Americatel Perú (Entel)
- Viettel Peru (Bitel)
- Gilat To Home Perú
- Flash Mobile
- Cuy Móvil
- Fibertel.
