MAP > Internet Providers in Peru

Peru’s fixed-line teledensity has remained to be among the lowest in South America, with the obstacles to the fixed line growth, and this is including the widespread poverty, the fixed to mobile substitution, the expensive telephone services as well as the geographical inaccessibility in rugged Andean mountains and the lowland Amazon jungles. Government has been addressing the shortcomings via the ambitious investment plans to be able to deploy the telecom infrastructure as well as the services in the underserved areas. Most of the work was to end by the year 2017 when the eight regional fiber-based networks were connected to National Fiber-Optic Backbone. But, there has remained some delays in the connection supplementary infrastructure to network, while the competition from the private networks prompted Ministry of Communication in late 2018 to be able to re-evaluate economic modeling of this project.

The broadband penetration in Peru has a bit lower than Latin American average despite the government efforts to be able to encourage the development of this sector. The mobile penetration is on the par with the regional average, but high penetration is attributed to popular use, and this is especially among the urban dwellers of the multiple mobile subscriptions. Such phenomenon has become minimally pronounced as the network operators respond to the market competition by offering the generous as well as the voice bundles so that the obviating need for the Sim cards from the various networks and as regulator endeavors to be able to remove the illegal devices as well as the unregistered SIM cards from market.

The Telefonica Peru, which has been trading as Movistar Peru, has become the leading player in the mobile market, that has been followed by the Claro Peru, the Entel Peru as well as the Viettel, that has been trading as the Bitel. The market has some potential to expand, and this is especially given the country’s low fixed broadband penetration that has gone on and encouraged take-up of the mobile data services. Auction of the spectrum in 700 MHz bands and release of the spectrum in 2.6 GHz range has gone on and enabled MNOs to expand the reach and the capability of the LTE services nationally. The report offers an overview of Peru’s telecom systems, combined with the profiles of major fixed-line operators as well as the wide range of the relevant statistics and analyses.