The number of internet subscriptions are 9.1 million in Hungary

The number of internet subscriptions in Hungary rose by an annual 8 percent to more than 9.1 million in the second quarter of 2017, a summary of data released by the Central Statistics Office (KSH) shows. 

Land line internet subscriptions grew by 4 percent to 2.7 million. Mobile internet subscriptions were up 10 percent at 6.3 million.

Fully 82 percent were retail subscriptions and the rest were corporate.

Ten internet service providers accounted for more than 96 percent of all subscriptions, KSH noted.

Hungarians used their land lines to download 500,274 TB of data in the second quarter, up 41.5 percent from the same period a year earlier. Upload volume rose 36.5 percent to 195,476 TB. Mobile data traffic, including both uploads and downloads, was up 61.8 percent at 27,368 TB.

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Source: MTI/KSH