Information, communication

Service providers registered more than 3.5 million fixed line internet subscriptions in Hungary at the end of December 2022, their number surpassed the previous end of year’s data by 4.6%. The characteristic trend of earlier years continued: the proportion of optical access within the fixed line internet subscriptions further increased, from 34% to 39% within one year. The number of subscriptions for other significant access service types (xDSL, cable tv, wireless) lessened.

Service providers had an income surpassing HUF 1000 billion in 2022 coming from communications activity. Mobile voice – and internet services gave more than half of this result (HUF 572 billion), in the rank of incomes being followed by fixed line internet services as well as the program distribution services.

Mobile network data traffic increases continuously, surpassing the previous year’s data in the 3rd quarter of 2021 by 35%. Optical network based internet subscriptions continued to increase in number, these represented more than one-third of the fixed line subscriptions in the 3rd quarter of 2021. The average length of calls initiated from mobile and fixed line networks lagged behind the peak values measured during the height of the pandemic, although surpassed the pre-pandemic values.

The the number of households with internet connection grew from 58% in 2010 to 88% by 2020. Surfing on the internet became a daily routine for most people: 79% of the population aged 16–74 surfed on a daily basis on the net in 2020, most people sought health related info, made phone calls or used the social media.