Peru Telecoms Market Report

Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses

Publication Date: December 2023

Report Pages: 203

Analyst: Henry Lancaster

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Summary
Table Of Contents

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;
Claro Peru to see 3,687 mobile towers transferred to a towerco newly set up by América Móvil.
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.

Companies mentioned in this report:

Telefónica del Perú (Movistar), América Móvil (Claro Perú), Americatel Perú (Entel), Viettel Peru (Bitel), Gilat To Home Perú, Flash Mobile, Cuy Móvil, Fibertel.

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 (Telefónica 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 (Telefónica)
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

Table 1 – Top Level Country Statistics and Telco Authorities – Peru – 2022 (e)
Table 2 – Evolution of GDP in Peru – 2012 – 2022
Table 4 – Development of telecom investment and revenue (S/. billion) – 2012 – 2021
Table 5 – Change in telecom service connections, by type (million) – 2012 – 2022
Table 6 – Percentage of households with access to ICT services – 2012 – 2020
Table 7 – Change in interconnection revenue – 2013 – 2021
Table 8 – Change in the number of annual fixed number portings – 2014 – 2022
Table 9 – Accumulated mobile number portings by operator – July 2014 – June 2022
Table 10 – Change in the number of annual mobile number portings – 2014 – 2022
Table 11 – Change in the number of mobile subscribers and penetration – 2012 – 2027
Table 13 – Mobile market share of subscribers by operator – 2012 – 2022
Table 14 – Change in the number of mobile prepaid/postpaid subscribers (million) – 2012 – 2020
Table 15 – Change in SMS traffic – 2012 – 2022
Table 16 – Change in MMS traffic – 2012 – 2022
Table 17 – Change in the number of active mobile broadband subscribers and penetration – 2012 – 2027
Table 18 – Change in the number of Movistar Peru’s mobile subscribers – 2012 – 2022
Table 19 – Development of Movistar Peru’s mobile revenue (€ million) – 2012 – 2022
Table 20 – Change in the number of Claro Peru’s mobile subscribers – 2012 – 2022
Table 21 – Development of Claro Peru’s mobile revenue (S/. million) – 2012 – 2022
Table 22 – Claro Peru’s mobile ARPU – 2012 – 2022
Table 23 – Growth in the number of Entel Peru’s mobile subscribers – 2012 – 2022
Table 24 – Change in the number of Entel Peru’s prepaid and contract mobile subscribers (million) – 2017 – 2022
Table 25 – Development of Entel Peru’s revenue (S/.) – 2013 – 2022
Table 27 – Change in the number of Viettel Peru’s mobile subscribers – 2014 – 2022
Table 28 – Change in the number of Flash Mobile’s mobile subscribers – 2016 – 2022
Table 29 – Fixed broadband technologies - market share – 2012 – 2022
Table 30 – Change in the number of fixed-line broadband subscribers and penetration – 2012 – 2027
Table 31 – Change in fixed internet revenue – 2013 – 2021
Table 32 – Change in the share of fixed broadband subscribers by operator – 2012 – 2022
Table 33 – Growth in the number of Movistar’s broadband subscribers – 2012 – 2022
Table 34 – Growth in the number of cable broadband subscribers – 2012 – 2022
Table 35 – Decline in the number of DSL subscribers – 2012 – 2022
Table 36 – WiMAX broadband subscribers – 2010 – 2019
Table 37 – Other fixed and fixed-wireless broadband subscribers – 2012 – 2022
Table 38 – Operator market share of fixed lines in service – 2012 – 2022
Table 39 – Development of Movistar’s financial data by service (S/. million) – 2012 – 2022
Table 40 – Development of Movistar Peru’s financial data (€ million) – 2012 – 2022
Table 41 – Decline in the number of Movistar’s fixed-line accesses – 2012 – 2022
Table 42 – Change in the number of Claro Peru’s fixed-line RGUs – 2012 – 2022
Table 43 – Development of Claro Peru’s fixed-line revenue – 2012 – 2022
Table 44 – Development of Americatel Peru’s revenue (S/.) – 2012 – 2022
Table 45 – Development of Americatel Peru’s revenue ($ million) – 2013 – 2022
Table 46 – Change in the number of Americatel Peru’s fixed lines – 2012 – 2022
Table 47 – Decline in the number of fixed-lines in service and teledensity – 2012 – 2027
Table 48 – Change in fixed voice revenue – 2013 – 2021
Table 49 – Fixed wireless lines in service – 2012 – 2022
Table 50 – International bandwidth – 2011 – 2017
Table 51 – Historic - Evolution of GDP in Peru – 2000 – 2011
Table 52 – Historic - GDP and telecom revenue (S/.) – 2006 – 2011
Table 53 – Historic - Fixed and mobile market share of connections – 1997 – 2011
Table 54 – Historic - Operator concessions by service – 2007 – 2015
Table 55 – Historic - Telecommunications sector investment – 2010 – 2015
Table 56 – Historic - Telecommunications revenue – 2001 – 2015
Table 57 – Historic - Change in telecom service connections, by type – 1997 – 2011
Table 58 – Historic - Fixed lines in service - operator market share – 2001 – 2011
Table 59 – Historic - Movistar - fixed-line accesses – 2001 – 2011
Table 60 – Historic - Claro - fixed line RGUs – 2001 – 2011
Table 61 – Historic - Americatel Peru fixed lines – 2002 – 2011
Table 62 – Historic - Fixed-line subscriptions – 2001 – 2011
Table 63 – Historic - Fixed broadband market share by operator – 2007 – 2011
Table 64 – Historic - International bandwidth – 2000 – 2011
Table 65 – Historic - Internet users and user penetration rate – 1997 – 2011
Table 66 – Historic - Broadband subscribers and penetration rates – 1999 – 2011
Table 67 – Historic - Fixed broadband technologies - market share – 2000 – 2011
Table 68 – Historic - Cable modem subscribers – 2000 – 2011
Table 69 – Historic - DSL subscribers – 2000 – 2011
Table 70 – Historic - Telefónica broadband subscribers – 2005 – 2011
Table 71 – Historic - Satellite broadband subscribers – 2010 – 2016
Table 72 – Historic - Mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 1997 – 2011
Table 73 – Historic - Mobile market share by operator – 2001 – 2011
Table 74 – Historic - Mobile prepaid/postpaid subscribers – 2004 – 2011
Table 75 – Historic - SMS traffic – 2004 – 2011
Table 76 – Historic - MMS traffic – 2004 – 2011
Table 77 – Historic - Movistar Peru - mobile subscribers – 2001 – 2011
Table 78 – Historic - Claro Peru - mobile subscribers – 2001 – 2011
Table 79 – Historic - Entel Peru mobile subscribers – 2001 – 2011
Table 80 – Historic - Development of GDP – 2010 – 2015
Table 81 – Historic - Fixed wireless lines in service – 2008 – 2011
Table 82 – Historic - Development of Movistar Peru’s mobile revenue (€ million) – 2009 – 2011
Table 83 – Historic - Development of Movistar’s financial data by service (S/. million) – 2009 – 2011
Table 84 – Historic - Development of Movistar Peru’s financial data (€ million) – 2009 – 2011
Table 85 – Historic - Development of Claro Peru’s fixed-line revenue – 2009 – 2011
Table 86 – Historic - Development of Americatel Peru’s revenue (S/.) – 2009 – 2011

List of Charts

Chart 1 – Latin America Telecoms Maturity Index – Market Leaders
Chart 2 – Latin America Telecoms Maturity Index – Market Challengers
Chart 3 – Latin America Telecoms Maturity Index – Market Emergents
Chart 4 – Latin America - Telecoms Maturity Index vs GDP per capita
Chart 5 – Latin America – Mobile subscriber penetration vs mobile broadband penetration
Chart 6 – South America mobile subscriber penetration vs mobile broadband penetration
Chart 7 – Central America – mobile subscriber penetration vs mobile broadband penetration
Chart 8 – South America – Fixed and mobile broadband penetration
Chart 9 – Central America – Fixed and mobile broadband penetration
Chart 10 – Change in the share of fixed and mobile connections - 2012 - 2022
Chart 11 – Development of telecom investment and revenue (S/.) – 2012 – 2021
Chart 12 – Change in telecom service connections, by type – 2012 – 2022
Chart 13 – Percentage of households with access to ICT services – 2012 – 2020
Chart 14 – Change in interconnection revenue – 2013 – 2021
Chart 15 – Change in the number of mobile subscribers and penetration – 2012 – 2027
Chart 16 – Change in mobile market revenue – 2013 – 2021
Chart 17 – Mobile market share of subscribers by operator – 2012 – 2022
Chart 18 – Change in the number of mobile prepaid/postpaid subscribers – 2012 – 2020
Chart 19 – Change in SMS traffic – 2012 – 2022
Chart 20 – Change in MMS traffic – 2012 – 2022
Chart 21 – Change in the number of active mobile broadband subscribers and penetration – 2012 – 2027
Chart 22 – Change in the number of Movistar Peru’s mobile subscribers – 2012 – 2022
Chart 23 – Development of Movistar Peru’s mobile revenue – 2012 – 2022
Chart 24 – Change in the number of Claro Peru’s mobile subscribers – 2012 – 2022
Chart 25 – Development of Claro Peru’s mobile revenue – 2012 – 2022
Chart 26 – Claro Peru’s mobile ARPU – 2012 – 2022
Chart 27 – Growth in the number of Entel Peru’s mobile subscribers – 2012 – 2022
Chart 28 – Change in the number of Entel Peru’s prepaid and contract mobile subscribers (million) – 2017 – 2022
Chart 29 – Development of Entel Peru’s revenue (S/.) – 2013 – 2022
Chart 30 – Change in the number of Viettel Peru’s mobile subscribers – 2014 – 2022
Chart 31 – Fixed broadband technologies - market share at a glance – 2012 – 2022
Chart 32 – Change in the number of fixed-line broadband subscribers and penetration – 2012 – 2027
Chart 33 – Change in fixed internet revenue – 2013 – 2021
Chart 34 – Change in the share of fixed broadband subscribers by operator – 2012 – 2022
Chart 35 – Growth in the number of cable broadband subscribers – 2012 – 2022
Chart 36 – Decline in the number of DSL subscribers – 2012 – 2022
Chart 37 – Operator market share of fixed lines in service – 2012 – 2022
Chart 38 – Development of Movistar’s financial data by service – 2012 – 2022
Chart 39 – Development of Movistar Peru’s financial data – 2012 – 2022
Chart 40 – Decline in the number of Movistar’s fixed-line accesses – 2012 – 2022
Chart 41 – Change in the number of Claro Peru’s fixed-line RGUs – 2012 – 2022
Chart 42 – Development of Claro Peru’s fixed-line revenue – 2012 – 2022
Chart 43 – Development of Americatel Peru’s revenue (S/.) – 2012 – 2022
Chart 44 – Development of Americatel Peru’s revenue – 2013 – 2022
Chart 45 – Change in the number of Americatel Peru’s fixed lines – 2012 – 2022
Chart 46 – Decline in the number of fixed-lines in service and teledensity – 2012 – 2027
Chart 47 – Change in fixed voice revenue – 2013 – 2021
Chart 48 – Fixed wireless lines in service – 2012 – 2022

List of Exhibits

Exhibit 1 – Map of Telecom Maturity Index global ranking among countries in Latin America
Exhibit 2 – Generalised Market Characteristics by Market Segment
Exhibit 3 – Latin America – Market Leaders and market developments
Exhibit 4 – Latin America – Market Challengers and market developments
Exhibit 5 – Latin America – Market Emergents and market developments
Exhibit 7 – Spectrum allocations by operator

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Peru Telecoms Market Report

Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses

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Peru cancels tender to manage the RDNFO network

Key developments:

Companies mentioned in this report:

Key statistics

Regional Latin America Market Comparison

Country overview

Telecommunications market

Regulatory environment

Mobile market

Fixed-line broadband market

Digital economy

Fixed network operators

Telecommunications infrastructure

Appendix – Historic data

Glossary of abbreviations

Related reports

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