Peru's fixed broadband market is growing steadily, though household penetration remains low. According to regulator Osiptel, the country ended 2025 with 4.38 million fixed broadband connections — a year-on-year increase of 9.1%. Yet at 48.9%, Peru's household penetration sits well below the regional average of 70.5%, based on TeleGeography data

Low penetration reflects supply-side and demand-side barriers that reinforce one another. On the demand side, low device ownership and low fixed broadband adoption are mutually constraining: as of mid-2025, only 37.8% of Peruvian households owned a computer, compared to 95.4% with access to a mobile phone — and in rural areas computer ownership fell to just 10.0%. With most internet activity conducted on smartphones, the case for a fixed connection is weak for much of the population. On the supply side, Peru's extreme topography makes physical infrastructure deployment costly and logistically complex outside major cities.

The government's primary response has been the Red Dorsal Nacional de Fibra Óptica (RDNFO), a state-backed national fiber backbone that now reaches 180 of Peru's 196 provincial capitals. However, the network has been persistently hampered by underutilisation and financial sustainability concerns, limiting its impact on last-mile connectivity.

Private operators have made more sizable gains. Fiber now accounts for 82.5% of all fixed broadband connections as of Q1 2026, up from 77.6% a year earlier, according to Osiptel's PUNKU analytics tool. Connections to date have been concentrated in Lima and Callao. However, regional connections beyond this grew at 15% in 2025, well above the 4.3% recorded in Lima and Callao. This suggests fiber economics are becoming viable beyond the capital.

The competitive landscape is also shifting. At the end of 2025, for the first time Claro overtook Movistar as market leader — 24.5% to Movistar's 24.3% — capping a sustained period of subscriber loss for the incumbent, which shed over 163,000 connections in 2025 alone. Movistar's decline comes in the context of significant corporate upheaval: Telefónica sold its Peruvian Movistar unit to Argentine firm Integra Tec following bankruptcy proceedings. Meanwhile, fiber-focused challengers WIN and WOW experienced the largest subscriber growth, growing their combined share to roughly 36% by the end of 2025. WIN is also growing its role as a wholesale infrastructure provider: In December 2025, Entel signed on to use WIN’s network to expand its own fixed broadband offer, gaining reach to over 3.1 million homes and businesses across Lima, Callao and Peru's main cities.

Alternative connectivity technologies have yet to make a significant dent in the Peruvian market. Claro launched commercial 5G fixed wireless access in Peru in 2021, with Entel following days later. However, FWA has not scaled significantly — in large part due to the limited spectrum available in the 3.5GHz band prior to the September 2025 auction. Entel, for example, had just 20MHz of 3.5GHz 5G spectrum before the auction. Whether the newly awarded spectrum can reinvigorate FWA remains to be seen — though with fiber's growing urban footprint and rural areas still largely outside 5G coverage, the path to scale is narrow.

Satellite internet, led by Starlink, has grown rapidly in Peru, more than doubling its connections in the year to Q1 2025, and growing to 1.7% market share by the end of Q1 2026. It likely provides the most viable connectivity option for deeply rural communities beyond fiber's reach, as a way to connect community centers and municipal hubs, but the same demand-side barriers that constrain fixed broadband adoption may also limit just how far it can scale.

This report covers Peru's main internet service providers – Claro, Movistar, WOW and WIN.

We analyze real-world data from Peru's fixed broadband users across five measures of user experience: Consistent Quality, Download Speed, Upload Speed, Video, and Reliability. Together, these metrics capture the many ways households rely on broadband, from remote work and education to video streaming and gaming.

We report using consumer-facing brand names. Plan characteristics -- such as speed tiers or data caps -- vary widely, and the distribution of plans influences average experience results. Our analysis reflects users' actual experience, regardless of their subscribed plan, measured over a 90-day period starting January 1, 2026,