Sept. 17, 2010 -
PRLog -- Stuttgart, Germany — Argentina’s telecommunications service industry was valued at ARS 29.4bn (€5.6bn) in 2009 as compared to ARS 25.3bn (€5.4bn) in 2008. Broadband grew by 22.4% YoY in 2009, followed by mobile telephony (17.5%), and fixed telephony (12.3%) — resulting to a total service revenue increase of 16.5% YoY in 2009 (21.1% in 2008). From 2010 to 2015, the Argentinean telecoms revenue is expected to grow at an annual average rate of about 4%, primarily driven by a 6% annual average growth rate in broadband services. However, unlike the declining broadband ARPU in other Latin American countries such as Brazil and Mexico, broadband ARPU in Argentina is seen to increase at an annual average growth rate of 3%.
Broadband revenue increased to ARS 3.2bn (€621.7mn)
in 2009, a growth of 22.4% YoY as compared to 25.6% YoY in 2008. With a penetration rate of 9%, the broadband market served 3.5mn subscribers in 2009, 73% of which were subscribed to XDSL while the rest were held by cable modem (26%) and fibre optic (
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