The Information Society in Spain - Plan Avanza

Development of Information Society in Spain:
Mobile phone penetration
Mobile phone lines have gone from 37.2 million in 2003 to 54.2 million lines in September
2009, increasing penetration over 26 pp (from 87.1% to 113.6%), above the penetration rates
of the EU-25.
3 years ago UMTS became commercially available. Today, there are near 17,3 million
mobile broadband lines (source: European Commision). A fourth operator was launched.
Internet use via mobile increased tenfold in three years.
Mobile Broadband has 13 million active users in Spain in July 2009 (Source: EC)
Number of mobile lines and penetration rate
54.2 M
Mobile telephony lines in Spain
50.2 M
113.6% Mobile telephony penetration in Spain
112.2 %
37.2 M
11.7 M
(July.08)
111.8%
13 M
(July.09)
Mobile telephony penetretation in UE 25
3G effective users in Spain
15 M
35 %
35 %
1999
87.1 %
81 %
9.6 M
1.9 M
2003 2006 2007 2008
October
2009
Source: Own elaboration based on CMT , EC and Eurostat
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