ANACOM - Portuguese Communications Authority

09/22/2023 | News release | Distributed by Public on 09/22/2023 11:28

NET.mede records 176 thousand Internet speed tests

In 2Q2023, NET.medehttps://netmede.pt/carried out around 176 thousand tests on the speed of Internet access (an average of 1933 tests per day), 4% less than in last quarter and the same quarter last year.

Approximately 65% of the tests were performed on residential fixed lines and 27% on mobile lines. The decrease in the number of tests compared to the previous quarter (-4%) was mainly due to a decrease in the number of tests performed on residential fixed lines (-4.6 thousand or -4%) and on non-residential fixed lines (-1.1 thousand or -9%).

For residential fixed access tests, the highest usage was between 4pm and 10pm. For mobile accesses, the times with the highest number of tests were in the morning (10-11am) and in the afternoon (3-4pm).

Only three municipalities did not record tests on fixed residential accesses and the majority of municipalities (285 out of 308) recorded tests on mobile accesses.

The Lisbon metropolitan area, especially the municipality of Lisbon, was the region with the highest number of tests on residential fixed and mobile access, followed by the North.

Half of (median) speed tests carried out on NET.medehttps://netmede.pt/during 2Q2023 found:

DOWNLOAD SPEEDS - 182 Mbps or more in fixed residential accesses and 19 Mbps or more in mobile accesses;

UPLOAD SPEEDS - 99 Mbps or more in fixed residential accesses and 8 Mbps or more in mobile accesses;

LATENCY - 13 milliseconds (ms) or less in fixed residential accesses and 37 ms or less in mobile accesses.

Compared to the same quarter last year, there was an improvement in the median results for residential fixed accesses, with increases in download speeds (+69%) and upload speeds (+40%). The exception was the median latency, which remained the same as last year. For mobile accesses, the median results analysed deteriorated compared to the previous year, with decreases in download speeds (-9%) and upload speeds (-11%) and an increase in latency (+6%).

In the case of fixed accesses, this trend may reflect, among other factors, the take-up by users of higher speed offers.

Consult the statistical report: