The number of very high-speed accesses is particularly high in Reunion (270,000 subscriptions at the end of 2021), i.e. 77% of accesses whose speed is equal to or greater than 30 Mbit/s (7 additional points in one year), reveals Arcep’s latest annual report on electronic communications overseas. Fiber remains the most widespread very high-speed technology overseas, with 315,000 accesses at the end of 2021, up 29% in one year. On the island, the rate of internet subscriptions in FttH is 58%, compared to 49% nationally and 35% on average overseas. In the field of mobile telephony, 94% of users have a flat-rate subscription. 72% of calls were made on 4G networks last year, compared to 82% in mainland France (55% in the West Indies, in Guyana and Mayotte). Data consumption is on average overseas at 6,6 GB per month (against 10 GB at the national level), and scales from 4,8 GB in Mayotte at 8,4 GB in Reunion. Finally, the number of SMS sent per month amounts to an average of 168 per number in Reunion Island, for approximately 25 in the Caribbean and 131 nationally.
Electronic communications : 2021 figures from ARCEP
