Telecom Stats

This subscription provides online access to the OECD Telecommunications and Internet Statistics Database, which provides annual data from 1980 onwards for 100 telecommunications variables such as standard lines, digital lines, IDN lines, DSL lines, mobile subs, residential lines, pay phones, telecoms staff, revenues, investment, traffic, and much more for OECD countries. This database is updated every two years.

Mobile broadband subscriptions are mobile subscriptions that advertise data speeds of 256 kbit/s or greater. The subscription must allow access to the Internet via HTTP and must have been used to make a data connection via Internet Protocol (IP) in the previous three months. Standard SMS and MMS messaging do not count as an active Internet data connection even if they are delivered via IP. This indicator is measured in number of subscriptions per 100 inhabitants.