Penetration of Fixed Broadband for high speed technologies

A map to analize fixed broadband data for Mexico considering penetration for technologies that can bring high speed services (optical fiber and coaxial cable) at municipal level for Mexico at June 2019.

It is based on an OCDE metric to quantify penetration within a zone (http://www.oecd.org/internet/broadband/broadband-faqs.htm), considering the number of Fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants

Notes:

• Considers broadband access technologies of optical fiber and coaxial cable for local loop deployed in Mexico until June 2019, as a proxy the ones that can provide high speed to end users.
• There is no public data for VDSL access, and also not all Mexican operators that have deployed coaxial cable use DOCISIS 3.0 or greater, so comparative has limitations.
• Demographical data is limited to census exercises of 2015, due to COVID 2019.
• We use R library mxmaps (https://www.diegovalle.net/mxmaps/).

1. Instructions

Data gathering, wrangling and map generation are base mostly on Bash and R scripts. Please do as follows:

1.1 Data Sources

Household and population data for Mexico in 2015

Source: Encuesta Intercensal 2015, from INEGI, Mexico. You can download it using the following terminal commands:

# Dowload household and population data for Mexico in 2015
wget -i ./data/Intercensal2015/urls_hogares.txt -P ./data/Intercensal2015/
wget -i ./data/Intercensal2015/urls_poblacion.txt -P ./data/Intercensal2015/

Fixed Broadband access data for Mexico

Source: Banco de Información de Telecomunicaciones of Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (México, https://bit.ift.org.mx/BitWebApp/). This give data for all local loop technologies present in Mexican Market (e.g xDSL, Optical Fibre, Coaxial Cable). Data was placed in /data/TODO_BAF

Geographic information for Mexico

Source: Marco Geoestadístico, INEGI https://www.inegi.org.mx/temas/mg/

1.2 Generation Maps

Just run R script

Maps-FixedBroadBand.R

An interactive map named as fixed-broadband-map-mexico.html is generated in current directory.

2. Remarks

• Within OCDE Countries, Fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants (considering all posible technologies for local loop) was close to 30.9 (http://www.oecd.org/sti/broadband/1.1-TotalBBSubs-bars-2019-12.xls), at December 2018. In case of Mexico, Fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants was close to 14.8.

• Eventually we can update this map, but new demographic data should be available.

• OCDE gave following note from it's penetration metric (http://www.oecd.org/digital/broadband/broadband-faqs.htm):

  • Why does the OECD express subscribers "per 100 inhabitants" instead of as a percentage of households?

    OECD subscriber data contains the total number of business and residential subscriber lines in a country. Normalising the number of broadband subscribers by the population provides an idea of relative penetration of subscriber lines. Expressing the number of subscriptions in terms of households would be misleading because some connections are to businesses. Normalising subscribers as a percentage of total households would consistently over-estimate broadband penetration.

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Center of Mexico

Peninsula de Yucatán

Center-South of Mexico