The average monthly expenditure per household in telecommunications services amounts to 63.5 euros

As it has been a tradition for nine years, the National Observatory of Telecommunications and the SI (ontsi), has published its annual report "The Network Society 2015" corresponding to the 2016 edition, covering the data collected on 2015.

The amount of data provided in this report is simply overwhelming, although there are some that are worth noting for what they have as important or curious about how technology is adopted in different parts of the world This report has its focus in Spain, although it does not neglect the study of data and trends at a global level.

Fixed telephony, in free fall

The telephone arrived in Europe, America and other developed countries at a time when the only possible technology was wired.But in developing countries, communications arrived when mobile telephony had reached a remarkable degree of maturity.For that reason, in these countries This type of terrestrial cable communications was almost completely omitted to deploy mobile networks , much easier to maintain and install.In developing countries, there are only 9.4 fixed lines per 100 inhabitants.other geographies, the fall is constant in favor of mobile telephony.

Mobile telephony, an unparalleled phenomenon

On the contrary, the number of mobile lines per 100 inhabitants reach, worldwide, the negligible figure of 96.8.In reality it is an average, considering that in developed countries there are even more lines than inhabitants : 120 , 6 mobile lines per 100 inhabitants to be more exact.This means that there are users with more than one mobile line

Internet, Africa and the Facebook satellite that never orbited

Internet penetration figures in the world is also especially interesting.While in Europe the percentage of households with Internet access is 82.1%, in Africa it is 10.7% .Mark Zuckerberg’s interest in putting a satellite huge to provide network coverage on this disconnected continent.Unfortunately, this satellite exploded along with the Space X rocket that had to make it huge.In any case, Africa is far behind Internet penetration, which also means a very attractive potential number of customers for companies like Facebook.

The situation in Spain

Focusing on Spain, by way of summary on the situation in the EU28 (European Union 28) in terms of digital indicators, our country is generally in the middle, pulling towards the bottom, except in the Digital Public Services dimension, where it occupies an honorable fifth place .These digital services include the number of users of the eAdministration, forms completed through the Internet, digital public services and advances in Open Data.

ICT services at home

Within the penetration of services TIC, it is worth highlighting the delay that pay TV has in front of the Internet, mobile and fixed telephony, with 30.7% penetration compared to, for example, 73.3% of the Internet service providers are betting on the package, with excellent acceptance by users, which have gone from a packaged contract in 58% of cases in the first quarter of 2015, at 71.7% in the third.

How much do we spend on ICT services?

In 2015 the expenditure average in each home dedicated to ICT services was € 63.5 per month , this figure being an average that does not take into account what services are contracted, but only what is spent on average in each home in the concept of ICT service.

If we focus on the average expenditure per service, calculated on the total number of households that have contracted said service (not the total average expenditure for each household, which is € 63.5 as we saw before), the most bulky amount is the mobile phone (€ 31.2), followed by pay TV (€ 24.2), Internet (€ 16.6) and landline (16, € 4) per month .

How do we connect to the Internet?

According to the report, ADSL is the technology most used to connect to the Internet , with a 64.1% of households.Fiber occupies a surprisingly low 19, 2%.The cable represents 15.6%, which makes the total high-speed connections (fiber and cable) 34.8% of the total households.Mobile broadband is used in 12, 9% and the conventional telephone stays at 1.9%.The satellite has 0.3% penetration.In terms of Internet use, 76.1% of Internet users connect daily , the mobile being the preferred means to do so, chosen by 76.4% of users.

What operating system is used most?

In this section, Google wins by win with Android, used in 81.9% of mobile terminals .Apple stays in 9.6% with iOS, and Windows Phone with 3.7% with Windows Phone.of the installed terminal base uses various operating systems such as Blackberry, although with insignificant figures difficult to break down.

If we stop to see which versions of Android are being used more, we find that the most recent versions, Android 5 and Android 6, are not even used mostly (34.9% and 0, 6% respectively), this honor being reserved for Android 4 (61.6%).

What Internet services do we use the most?

Here the answer leaves no room for many surprises: social networks and messaging are the ones that take the palm .Social networks are consulted several times a day in the 75.2% of major Internet users of 15 years.And WhatsApp messaging is consulted and used several times a day in 42.9% of cases.Anyway, of all the Internet-based media, email is still the most widely used.use, specifically by 73.3% of users. social networks , meanwhile, are used by 58.8% of Internet users , with 18 , 6% who routinely use Skype calls.It is necessary to take into account that in these statistics the total population is taken as a reference, where there are segments of users that make the means go down, c Like those of users over 50 years old, for example.

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