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Number of subscribers in Internet services [2012]

Number of subscribers in Internet services: The indicator includes the total number of fixed narrowed and broadband subscribers and the total number of mobile broadband subscribers. An updated version is published for each year on the following fiscal year.

Fixed narrowed band subscriptions: Dial-up Internet access is a form of Internet access that uses the facilities of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) to establish a connection to an Internet service provider (ISP) by dialing a telephone number on a conventional telephone line.

Fixed-broadband subscriptions: refers to fixed subscriptions to high-speed access to the public Internet (a TCP/IP connection), at downstream speeds equal to, or greater than, 256 kbit/s. This includes cable modem, DSL, fibre-to-the-home/building, other fixed (wired)-broadband subscriptions, satellite broadband and terrestrial fixed method of payment. It excludes subscriptions that have access (Including the Internet) via data communications mobile-cellular networks. It should include fixed WiMAX and any other fixed wireless technologies. It includes both residential and organizational subscriptions.

Mobile broadband subscriptions: Total active internet subscriptions by using the mobile.

Number of active internet subscriptions in the Mobile broadband: includes the number of postpaid subscriptions and the number of active prepaid subscriptions (that have been used during the last three months).