The number of active mobile phone cards on the market in Cape Verde was 588.593 in December 2022, which represents a slight decrease of 0,3% compared to the same period, according to the country's regulatory agency.
According to the Report on Statistical Indicators of the Electronic Communications Market in Cape Verde, by the Multisectoral Regulatory Agency for the Economy (ARME), in the fourth quarter of 2022 the number of mobile phone cards increased by 2% when compared to the previous quarter .
In the period under review, the penetration rate was 103%, according to ARME, which said that CV Móvel held at the time 68% of the share of the total number of active SIM cards in the mobile market in Cape Verde.
According to the document, the number of cards dedicated exclusively to mobile internet connections was 30.294, which represents 5% of all cards, registering an increase of 1,6% in relation to the previous quarter and a decrease of 11% in relation to to the same period.
As for fixed telephony services, in the last three months of last year the country had 57.020 subscribers, corresponding to a penetration rate of 10 accesses per 100 inhabitants, which represents an increase of 2% in relation to the third quarter of the same year .
With regard to the fourth quarter of 2021, there is an increase of 4%, continued the Cape Verdean regulatory agency, which concluded that CV Multimédia held 53,5% of the market share of landlines, followed by CV Telecom with 44,6% and Unitel T+ with 1,9%.
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Regarding voice traffic, around 6,5 million minutes were generated on the fixed network in the period under analysis, corresponding to an increase of 11% compared to the previous quarter, but a decrease of 7% compared to the same period of the year. past.
With regard to the internet access service, between October and December 2022 the total number of subscriptions was 476.555, of which 86% were provided by Small Screen Mobile Broadband technology.
The number of subscriptions to the internet service decreased by around 1% in the fourth quarter of 2022 when compared with the third quarter of 2022 and with the same period of the previous year, continued ARME.
According to the same source, the penetration rate of the internet access service was around 84 accesses per 100 inhabitants, a decrease of 0,75 percentage points and 2,78 compared to the third quarter of 2022.
As for market shares for subscriptions to this service, CVMóvel holds the highest percentage (64%), followed by Unitel T+ (29,89%) and CVMultimédia (6,11%).
