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Investment in Lithuania's electronic network infrastructure grows by 139% in Q1

BC, Vilnius, 09.06.2015.Print version
Based on preliminary data of Lithuania's Communications Regulatory Authority (RRT), in the 1st quarter of 2015 compared with the 4th quarter of 2014, investment in electronic communications network infrastructure was by 44% greater and totalled EUR 38.7 million. Meanwhile, the 1st quarter of 2015 compared with the 1st quarter of 2014, investment increased by a staggering 139.1%, informs LETA/ELTA.

In the 1st quarter of 2015 the number of users of broadband communications technologies grew by 1% quarter-on-quarter and by 5% year-on-year and reached 1.12 million.

 

The number of users of public mobile communications networks using a computer increased by 2.6% in a quarter and totalled 317,000.

 

Meanwhile, the number of users of packet switched data communication services (GPRS/EDGE, UMTS, UMTS HSDPA, LTE) provided by mobile communications networks totalled 2.01 million. This was by 5% fewer than in the 4th quarter of 2014 but by 4% more than in the 1st quarter of 2014. 208,000 of these 2 million, or 10.4%, used Long-Term Evolution (4G LTE) technology. The number of 4G LTE users increased by 64% in the 1st quarter of 2015 compared with the previous quarter, and by 21 times compared with the 1st quarter of 2014.

 

The number of users of broadband internet provided via fixed technologies increased by 1% in the 1st quarter of 2015 and reached 807,000.

 

In the 1st quarter of 2015 compared with the previous quarter, the number of active SIM cards decreased by 2.2% to 4.17 million. 1.70 million, 41%, of all mobile phone users used pre-paid payment method for services.

 

In the 1st quarter of 2015 compared with the previous quarter, electronic communications market shrank by 1.4% and amounted to EUR 152.7 million. However, compared with the 1st quarter of 2014, electronic communications market grew by 3.7%.






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