Broadband lines grew 6.1 percent to 72.4 million connections in Latin America in 2017 as compared with 6.3 percent growth achieved in 2016.
DSL is the most used technology with a market share of 48.1 percent as compared with cable modem with 38.6 percent of market share. Optical fibre reached a share of 13.3 percent (+3.5 points vs 2016), according to Dataxis.
The broadband penetration over households reached 41.5 percent in 2017, adding one point and a half to 2016’s penetration rate.
Chile, Mexico and Argentina’s broadband penetration rate exceeds 50 percent. Colombia has the regional average in terms of broadband penetration rate. Brazil’s broadband penetration is 6 points below regional average, but has the highest growth rate.
