The broadband Internet access services in the first half of this year continued to grow in volume. The total number of subscribers to such services rose by 2.4% in six months to over 598,000 users. The sales of such services increased by  6.3% to over 636.5 million lei. As a result, the monthly average revenue per user of such services grew by 1.4% to 180 lei, IPN reports, quoting the ICT regulator.

The analysis of the connections to the fixed broadband Internet depending on data transfer speeds used by subscribers shows the largest rise in the number of users in the first quarter of this year was seen in the connections that enable speeds of 30 Mbps to 100 Mbps. Thus, the number of such subscribers in six months rose by 13,500 to 308,800. The number of those who used speeds of over 100 Mbps grew by 9,200 to 49,200, while of those that navigated at speeds of 10 to 30 Mbps increased by 3,700 to 193,700.

Specialists say the continuous rise in the number of users of broadband Internet access services is due to the investments made in this sector that enable to improve the services and to more efficiently use the Internet resources, such as socialization platforms and more accessible video content.