Colombia. Telecommunications services in Colombia generated revenues of USD7,992 million in 2014, according to data released by Dataxis in the report "Telecom Series 2015: Colombia". That figure will increase by 8.1% towards 2018, when it will amount to USD8,637 million. The data includes combined revenues from the mobile, fixed telephony and fixed broadband markets in the Andean country.
At the end of 2014, the mobile market represented 74% of Colombia's total telecommunications revenues, a figure that Dataxis estimates will grow to 78.4% by 2018. Colombia had 51.3 million active SIM cards as of Q4 2014. The company estimates that the market will grow to 55.6 million in 2018. By then, 4G will have 83% of the market.
The fixed broadband sector accounted for about 11% of total revenue in 2014; by 2018 Dataxis estimates that this figure will amount to 13.7%. The number of broadband accesses in Q4 2014 was 4.9 million. By 2018, Dataxis estimates that it will grow 35.5% to 6.6 million accesses.
Colombia registered a total of 7.1 million fixed telephone lines as of Q4 2014. The market suffered a fall of 9.1% since 2007, when it registered 7.8 million lines. It is expected that for 2018 it will fall 10.7% to 6.3 million lines.
Dataxis Research's new collection, "Telecom Series 2015", is a list of telecommunications reports that analyzes, by country, the performance in fixed telephony, fixed broadband and mobile telephony in the main markets of Latin America. Each of the six reports in the collection (focused on the markets of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru) offers historical data, projections to 2018 and an updated detail of the regulatory and competitive framework in which the main players in the industry operate.
