At least one family member owned a mobile phone at 90.6% of Peruvian households in the July-September 2017 period, the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI) reported Tuesday.
According to INEI's technical report "Statistics on Information Technology and Communications at Households," such figure was 1.4% higher than that of the same quarter in 2016 (89.2%).
The report also shows that cell phones were the only means of communication at 68.8% of households in the analyzed period, up by 2.9% from the same period last year.
At 21.8% of households, residents relied on both
cell phone and landline connections, whereas 1.3% of homes only had landlines.
On the other hand, 8.0% of the total did not rely on any type of phone connection.
The aforementioned document was crafted by INEI, featuring quarterly results from Peru's National Household Survey.
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