Egypt

Egypt loses 280,000 mobile phone subscribers in September 2015

The number of mobile phone subscribers in Egypt declined by 280,000, or 0.46 percent, to settle at 93.24 million in September 2015, compared to 93.50 million in August 2015, according to a report issued by the Communications and Information Technology Ministry on Wednesday.
 
Meanwhile, the number of mobile phone subscribers decreased by 1.6 million (3.8 percent) in September 2015, compared to the same month last year.
 
Mobile penetration rates shrank to 107.01 percent at the end of September 2015, compared to 110.76 percent for the same period last year.
 
The report also stated that landline subscriptions increased by 3.76 percent in September 2015, compared to August 2015, to reach 6.22 million subscribers, although it is still down by 9 percent from September 2014 numbers, where there were 6.84 million subscriptions. 
 

Related Articles

Back to top button