the telecom sector was one of the major contributors to Azerbaijan’s non-oil GDP, development, growth, and investment; mobile usage rates reached 100% in 2011, but have largely stagnated since; the MNOs are slowly extending the reach of their LTE networks around the country, and this increased coverage (along with access to faster data-based services) is expected to produce a moderate resurgence for both mobile and mobile broadband over the next few years as customers migrate from 3G to 4G; 5G services are still some way off, as the demand for high-speed data and fast broadband can easily be met by existing capacity; fixed-line teledensity continues to drop each year as customers consolidate their services around the mobile platform; the rate of decline is slow compared to other countries, since Azerbaijan has a high proportion (87%) of fixed-line broadband customers still on DSL; fiber (12% of fixed broadband connections) is gradually being rolled out in urban areas, which makes up the bulk of the limited growth in the fixed broadband market