Mexico. The National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), in collaboration with the Secretariat of Communications and Transport (SCT) and the Federal Institute of Telecommunications (IFT), published the results of the National Survey on Availability and Use of Information Technologies in Homes (Endutih) 2019.
Endutih 2019 provides information at the national level, by urban and rural area and by socioeconomic stratum and its results are comparable with those provided by INEGI from 2015.
Digital television
92.5% of households have at least one TV. With respect to 2018, there is a reduction of almost half a percentage point.
Regarding the type of TV available in homes, 76.5% of them have at least one digital type, which represented an increase of 3.6 percentage points compared to 2018.
96% of households in the country receive the digital television signal from digital TV, pay TV signal or set-top box.
Internet
In Mexico there are 80.6 million internet users, representing 70.1% of the population aged six and over. This figure reveals an increase of 4.3 percentage points compared to that registered in 2018 (65.8%) and 12.7 percentage points compared to 2015 (57.4 percent).
The number of households that have internet (56.4%), either through a fixed or mobile connection, is estimated at 20.1 million, which means an increase of 3.5 percentage points compared to 2018 and 17.2 percentage points compared to the results of 2015 (39.2 percent).
Of the 80.6 million internet users aged six and over, 51.6% are women and 48.4% are men.
Between 2017 and 2019, users in the urban area went from 71.2% to 76.6%, while in the rural area the increase was from 39.2% to 47.7% of users aged 6 years or older.
The three main means for connecting users to the internet in 2019 were: smartphone with 95.3%; laptop with 33.2%, and desktop with 28.9 percent.
The main activities of internet users in 2019 corresponded to entertainment (91.5%), obtaining information (90.7%) and communicating (90.6 percent).
Internet users identified as main problems when connecting to the network the slowness in the transfer of information (50.1%), interruptions in service (38.6%) and excess unwanted information (25.5 percent).
Cellular telephony
According to endUTIH 2019, it is estimated that the country has 86.5 million users of this technology, representing 75.1% of the population aged six years or older; and an increase of 3.6 percentage points over 2015.
Nine out of ten cell phone users have a smartphone.
The proportion of users who only had one smartphone had a growth of 23 percentage points between 2015 and 2019 (65.1 against 88.1%, respectively).
Computer
43.0% of the population aged 6 years and over is a computer user (49.4 million). The proportion is 8.3% lower compared to users in 2015 and 2.0 percentage points lower than those registered in 2018.
The proportion of households that have a computer registered a marginal decrease, going from 44.9% in 2015 and 2018 to 44.3% in 2019, which means a reduction of 0.6 percentage points.
