In addition, the internet penetration rate increased by 2.8% to reach 51.9% from 49.1% recorded in the previous quarter. This is largely attributable to the 17% and 6% increase in active fibre and mobile subscriptions respectively.
All other technologies increased save for Leased line, WiMAX and CDMA which recorded decreases of -2.9%, -12.3% and -2% respectively. Active fibre subscription saw the highest increase with total active internet subscription totaling to 5.7%.
Active Internet Subscriptions
The growing popularity of social media is expected to drive data usage in the coming years. The market share of mobile internet and data used saw Econet recording a 3.5% increase from the 67.1% recorded in the first quarter.
NetOne and Telecel saw their market share and data traffic declining by 1.1% and 4.2% respectively.
Growth in fibre subscriptions
