The mobile telephony sub-market remains the largest segment in the communications market. The number of mobile subscriptions* in itself exceeds the aggregate number of landline telephony, television and fixed internet subscriptions.

The sub-market for mobile internet services continues to be the most dynamically growing segment in the Hungarian electronic communications market. Although it could not repeat the growth seen in previous years, the number of mobile internet subscriptions* still rose by 13% in 2015. The number of fixed broadband internet subscriptions and the number of television subscriptions went up by 6% and 3%, respectively, last year. With regard to access to mobile telephony services, a slight increase of around 1% was recorded, while landline telephony remained stagnant.

*Among monthly card and pre-paid cards, the number of SIM cards that were used in the previous three months to initiate or receive calls or send text messages (SMS).

*The number of SIM cards (pre-paid post-paid) with an active internet access service with a monthly fee exceeding HUF 0, providing at leas 10 Mbytes of data, on the last day of any given calendar month,