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 Proportion of resident population covered by mobile telecommunications network (%)
Characteristic Description
Name Proportion of resident population covered by mobile telecommunications network (%) by Type of technologies; Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Telecommunications survey
First available period 2010
Last available period 2024
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic localization (Portugal)
  • Type of technologies
Concepts
  • RESIDENT POPULATION COVERED BY TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK:  Population corresponding to the inhabitants living within the range of a mobile telecommunications network signal, whether or not they are subscribers or users of that network.
  • ECONOMIC TERRITORY:  Territory that consists on: (a) the geographic territory administered by a government within which persons, goods, services and capital move freely; (b) any free zones, including bonded warehouses and factories under customs control; (c) the national air-space, territorial waters and the continental shelf lying in international waters, over which the country enjoys exclusive rights; (d) territorial enclaves (i.e. geographic territories situated in the rest of the world and used, under international treaties or agreements between States, by general government agencies of the country (embassies, consulates, military bases, scientific bases, etc.); (e) deposits of oil, natural gas, etc., in international waters outside the continental shelf of the country, worked by units resident in the territory as defined in the preceding subparagraphs.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
Formule

(Resident population covered by the mobile network/ Resident population)*100

Measure unit (symbol) Percentage (%)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 10/06/2025


information presented in 21/6/2025