The Ministry of Information and Communications Technologies (MinTic) reported that in the third quarter of 2016 there were a total of 15.1 million broadband accesses - accounting for fixed accesses with download speeds equal to or greater than 1 Megabyte and 3G and 4G mobile connections per subscription - with a penetration of 31%. Broadband grew 1.5% compared to the second quarter and 23.3% compared to the third quarter of 2015. Of total subscriptions, 61% correspond to mobile accesses and the remaining 39% to fixed accesses. In the inter-annual comparison, 4G connections grew 91%.