The main indicators of the landline phone market continue to decline. The number of subscribers during three months of this year decreased by 8,300 or 0.7% to 1.1 million, according to the data for the first quarter of this year provided to the National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology by 24 providers of landline telephone services, IPN reports.

The Agency said total voice traffic diminished by 12.6% compared with the first quarter of 2018, to 331.9 million minutes. Sales decreased by 25.2 million lei or 17.6% to 117.9 million lei.

The decline in the number of subscribers was due to the 0.8% decrease in the number of clients of the national telecoms carrier Moldtelecom, to 982,700, and the 0.4% fall in the number of alternative providers to 117,300. As a result, the landline phone penetration rate per 100 people over three months declined by 0.2 percentage points to 31%.

Traffic to international networks decreased by 34.1%, to own networks by 13.7%, while to mobile phone networks by 2.1%. Consequently, the average monthly volume of traffic per user declined by 10.2% to 158 minutes, while the monthly average revenue per user diminished by 6.3 lei or 15% to 35.6 lei.