The fixed tele-density (the number of telephone connections for every hundred individuals living within an area) remained at 1.9%.
Fixed voice traffic increased by 10.9% to record 116.4 million minutes compared to 105 million recorded in the first quarter of 2018.
The total number of active fixed telephone lines increased by 1.7% to reach 263,962 from 259,438 recorded in the previous quarter. The fixed telephone subscriptions saw a decline in residential type, however, recorded an increase in the corporate subscriptions totalling to 1.7%.
The growth in corporate subscriptions is attributable to the improved uptake of Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) internet. Corporate fixed telephone started to show a growth trend since the second quarter of 2017.
Using a population figure of the 13,864,768 for 2018 as per ZIMSTAT projections, the fixed teledensity remained at 1.9%. The fixed teledensity has been stagnant at 1.9% since March 2017.
The fixed teledensity of 1.9% is the lowest recorded since the year 2000 which has an average of 2.5% until 2016. Fixed telephone subscriptions have become lower over the years as mobile telephony has been more widely adopted.