Peru Nears Full Connectivity as 99.5% of Households Access Telecom Services

Peru is advancing rapidly toward full digital inclusion, with authorities reporting that 99.5 % of households subscribe to at least one telecommunications service.

Organismo Supervisor de Inversión Privada en Telecomunicaciones (OSIPTEL)’s Encuesta Residencial de Servicios de Telecomunicaciones (ERESTEL) 2024 records this near-universal access rate.

According to the survey, by the end of 2024 approximately 10.55 million households (99.5 %) had access to mobile or fixed telephony, internet or pay-TV — climbing significantly from 95.8 % in 2019.

A deeper breakdown shows mobile telephony penetration increasing from 94.1 % in 2019 to 99.3 % in 2024, while home internet access rose from 76.2 % to 92.6 % over the same period — signalling a shift from mere availability toward actual usage.

Meanwhile, fixed-line telephony stood at only 4.6 % and pay-TV at 33.9 % by end-2024 — suggesting substitution of legacy platforms by mobile and broadband alternatives.

Although the dataset strongly points to near-universal connectivity, the publicly accessible OSIPTEL documentation for 2024 is limited: the full category breakdowns and methodological appendices yet to be widely published.

The 2023 ERESTEL edition likewise reported over 99 % of households having access to at least one service, though detailed breakdowns for all service types were not released.