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Claro leads Peru mobile data traffic as average phone use reaches 25 GB

OSIPTEL measured 25.06 GB per phone per month in the second quarter, up 21.11% year on year. Claro carried 34.55% of mobile data traffic; that is not its share of subscriptions.

Average monthly mobile internet use from phones in Peru reached 25.06 gigabytes (GB) in the second quarter of 2026, according to figures OSIPTEL published on September 24. That was 21.11% higher than a year earlier. For operators, rising usage can put pressure on network capacity, but a national average does not describe every customer's experience or establish that speeds have improved. [1]

Claro accounted for 34.55% of mobile data traffic in the quarter, followed by Bitel with 25.15%, Entel with 23.65% and Movistar with 16.63%. These shares measure the volume of data carried, not each company's number of mobile subscriptions. An operator may have fewer subscribers yet carry more traffic if its customers use more data per device. The four reported shares total 99.98% because of rounding. [1]

The figures also separate payment models. Postpaid and control plans, both linked to a monthly charge, generated 84.18% of traffic, while prepaid represented 15.82%. This split shows where data was consumed, not the proportion of customers using each kind of plan. OSIPTEL said Bitel gained 1.53 percentage points of traffic share from the second quarter of 2025, the largest increase among the operators named. [1]

The 25.06 GB average compares with 20.69 GB in the second quarter of 2025 and 10.29 GB in the same period of 2021. The regulator also reported that about 33.42 million mobile phones accessed the internet in June 2026. That last figure counts connected phones, whereas traffic share measures data volume; it is not a subscription market share either. Mobile Time covered the release, but its figures come from OSIPTEL rather than a separate measurement. [1][2]

Usage growth matters to those planning network capacity, spectrum and data offers. These sources do not break the results down by technology, region or service quality, so they do not establish a 5G cause or allow speed rankings across operators. TelcoBrief has separately covered growth in Entel Peru's customer base; that subscriber measure should not be confused with these traffic shares. A Peru statistical country sheet is not yet published under Market Data, so this story does not link to a nonexistent series. [1][2]

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