Internet and mobile subscriptions at the end of June both were both higher than in the same month last year but fixed telephone and television subscriptions were lower.

The National Statistics Office said that during this period, internet broadband subscriptions numbered 142,299, 6.2 per cent more than in the same period last year.

High speed internet connections exceeding 10 Mbps advanced to 115,250 and accounted for 81 per cent of the total.

On the other hand, internet subscriptions of between 2 Mbps and 10 Mbps went down by 58.6 per cent.

The number of television subscriptions totalled 146,544, down by 1.3 per cent over 2012.

The number of fixed telephone subscriptions as at the end of June reached 229,997, down by 1.4 per cent over 2012. Total fixed originating minutes to national and international networks declined by five per cent and 12.1 per cent, respectively.

During the reference period, mobile telephone subscriptions reached 554,651, up by 3.3 per cent over 2012.

An advance of 8.2 per cent was recorded in the demand for post-paid schemes, and an increase of two per cent in pre-paid subscriptions.

At around 9.9 million items, total postal traffic went down by 2.1 per cent. Items received and dispatched by couriers amounted to 167,054, an increase of 17.2 per cent over last year.