ECONOMY

Lockdowns led to increase in faster internet connections

Lockdowns led to increase in faster internet connections

The successive lockdowns over the last 16 months have resulted in the growth of ultra-high-speed internet connections, of 100 megabits per second or more, in Greece, according to a report by the National Commission for Telecommunications and Post (EETT).

The report, monitoring the second half of last year, showed that the share of broadband connections with a nominal speed of at least 100 Mbps amounted to 5.8% at end-2020, against just 1.8% a year earlier.

The share of high-speed connections (between 30 and 100 Mbps) rose to 32.8% from 25.7% at end-2019 and the share of connections between 10 and 30 Mbps dropped from 72.8% to 61.1% at end-2020.

Fiber-optic access lines amounted to 472,613 at end-2020, amounting to 11.07 of all broadband lines, up from 4.76% at end-2019.

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