The overwhelming majority (93%) of Portuguese households had some form of electronic communications service in 2022.
According to a report by the regulator ANACOM, the highest number (87.9%) was pay-TV, followed by fixed internet access (82.6%) and fixed telephony (73.1%). Meanwhile, mobile broadband via phones, PCs, tablets, pen or router was used by 48.3% of households.
In 2022, 85.6% of households had bundled services. Pay-TV was the most subscribed service in bundled offers (93.9% of households with bundled services), followed by fixed broadband (90.8%) and fixed telephony (78.2%).
The Lisbon metropolitan area, Azores and Madeira had the highest proportion of households with access to fixed electronic communication and bundled services.
In the case of pay-TV and bundled services, the figure stood at over 90%.