The Postal and Telecommunications regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ), today released the sector performance report for Q3 2021. Here are the highlights from the report:
- Active fixed telephone lines declined by 0.4% to reach 244,316 in the third quarter of 2021 from 245,322 recorded in the second quarter of 2021; the fixed tele-density declined by 0.1% to reach 1.6% from 1.7% recorded in the second quarter of 2021.
- Active mobile telephone subscriptions increased by 3.4% to record 13.9 million in the third quarter of 2021, from 13.5 million recorded in the second quarter of 2021; the mobile penetration rateincreased by 2.2% to reach 93.5% from 91.3% recorded in the second quarter of 2021.
- The total number of active Internet and data subscriptions increased by 1.2% to reach 9.3 million in the third quarter of 2021 from 9.2 million recorded in the previous quarter; the Internet penetration rate increased by 0.3% to reach 62.6% from 62.3% recorded in the previous quarter.
- Fixed telephone voice traffic declined by 1.2% to record 87.1 million minutes in the third quarter of 2021, from 88.2 million minutes recorded in the second quarter of 2021.
- Total mobile voice traffic increased by 19.3% to record 2.1 billion in the third quarter of 2021 from 1.8 billion minutes recorded in the second quarter of 2021.
- Mobile Internet and data traffic increased by 10.4% to record 25,882TB in the third quarter of 2021 from 23,436TB in the second quarter of 2021.
- Used international incoming bandwidth capacity also increased by 4.1% to record 188,768Mbps in the third quarter of 2021 from 181,309Mbps recorded in the second quarter of 2021.
- Total postal and courier volumes increased by 25.9% to record 732,303 items in the third quarter of 2021 from 581,450 items recorded in the second quarter of 2021.
- Total mobile operator revenues grew by 15.8% to record ZWL19.5 billion from ZWL16.9 billion recorded in the second quarter of 2021; On the other hand, operating costs grew by 40.9% to record ZWL12.5 billion from ZWL8.8 billion.
- Revenue generated by the fixed telephone network grew by 25.2% to record ZWL2.3 billion in the third quarter of 2021 from ZWL1.8 billion recorded in the second quarter of 2021; operating costs increased by 13.2% to record ZWL2.1 billion from ZWL1.8 billion recorded in the previous quarter.
- IAP revenues grew by 21.7% to record ZWL7.3 billion in the third quarter of 2021 from ZWL6 billion recorded in the second quarter of 2021; meanwhile, total operating costs for IAPs grew by 54.1% to record ZWL5.1 billion from ZWL3.3 billion.
- Total revenue generated by the postal and courier sector increased by 31.7% to record ZWL454.1 million in the third quarter of 2021 from ZWL344.9 million recorded in the second quarter of 2021; operating costs increased by 8.5% to record ZWL366.3 million from ZWL337.8 million recorded in the second quarter of 2021
You can download the full POTRAZ Q3 2021 report with the link below:
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