Just over three in ten (31%) of Italian fixed internet subscribers used ADSL (copper) networks at the end of the second quarter of 2021, according to the latest update from regulator Agcom. Four years earlier – in June 2017 – just under 80 percent of fixed network accesses were copper, but they have since declined by some 9.9 million lines to 4.68 million due the rise in FTTC, FTTH and FWA technology, which together account for 13.73 million of Italy’s 18.40 million fixed broadband lines.
In total, FTTC accesses were up 5.4 percent year on year to 49.2 percent of the fixed broadband market at the end of June, while FTTH rose 3.8 percent to 11.4 percent and fixed wireless access (FWA) climbed 1.0 percent to 8.3 percent, said Agcom. At the end of the second quarter there were a total of 19.9 million fixed network lines, up around 279,000 year on year, while the number of lines offering speeds of 100 Mbps and over came to 57.4 percent of the broadband total at the end of Q2.
Telecom Italia (TIM) continued as the leading fixed broadband brand with a 42.3 percent share of lines, flat year on year, with Vodafone remaining in second place on 16.5 percent followed by Fastweb on 15.1 percent, down 0.1 percent, WindTre on 14.0 percent, Linkem on 3.7 percent (down 0.2%), Eolo on 3.1 percent (+0.3%) and Tiscali on 2.4 percent (-0.2%).
