Statistics Category

Ghana's Mobile Subscribe Base Hit 26.33 Million at End of February
April 21st 2013 - 10:30 GMT
The subscriber base in Ghana reached 26.325 million at the end of February, the telecoms regulator has announced -- showing a growth of 1.1% over the previous month....more

Ip.access Passes the One Million Small Cell Milestone
February 18th 2013 - 17:05 GMT
Small cell systems vendor and manufacturer ip.access today confirmed it had become the first 3G small cell provider to ship one million residential units....more

Ghana Added 4.45 Million New Mobile Subscribers During 2012
February 12th 2013 - 14:00 GMT
Ghana's telecoms regulator has announced that the country ended last year with just under 25.62 million mobile phone subscribers. ...more

India's GSM Networks Lose 9.4 Million Customers in November
December 18th 2012 - 18:30 GMT
India's GSM mobile networks lost nearly 10 million customers in the month of November, according to statistics released by the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI). ...more

One Million Numbers Ported in New Zealand
December 17th 2012 - 08:30 GMT
Number Portability in New Zealand has just reached its 1 millionth ported number - just over five years since the service was launched....more

Moldova SIM Card Accounts Exceed 4 Million
December 4th 2012 - 09:15 GMT
The total number of mobile accounts in Moldova has exceeded 4 million, according to statistics collected by the telecoms regulator. However, the number of active accounts is lower, at 3.47 million....more

India Reverses Shrinking GSM Customer Base
November 23rd 2012 - 11:45 GMT
India's GSM networks have reversed the past couple of months of shrinking customer bases, but only just after they added 240,000 customers in October....more

Tajik Private Phone Provider Business Booms
November 21st 2012 - 07:30 GMT
Tajik private mobile phone providers are outcompeting government-linked providers, Avesta.tj reported November 19, quoting the Tajik Statistical Agency....more

Ericsson's Charging and Billing Solutions Pass 2 Billion Subscriptions Mark
November 14th 2012 - 17:45 GMT
Ericsson says that it has surpassed the 2 billion mark in the number of worldwide subscriptions served by its charging and billing solutions, ...more

France Sees Fastest Mobile Subscriber Growth Rate in a Decade
November 12th 2012 - 11:15 GMT
France, including its overseas territories, has 72 million mobile phone accounts at the end of September, equating to a population penetration level of 110%,...more

India's Mobile Subscriber Base Shrank by 1.74 Million in September
November 7th 2012 - 11:27 GMT
India's mobile subscriber base fell by 1.74 million during September, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of Communications and IT....more

Spanish Mobile Market Shrinks by 1.3 Million Lines in 2012
October 22nd 2012 - 13:00 GMT
The Spanish mobile phone market has shrunk by 1.31 million lines, according to a report from the telecoms regulator, the CMT....more

Bharti Airtel Becomes World's Fourth Largest Mobile Network Operator
October 21st 2012 - 15:00 GMT
Bharti Airtel says that it has moved up one notch in the world wide ranking to be the fourth largest mobile operator in the world in terms of subscribers....more

Facebook Passes One Billion Users Landmark
October 4th 2012 - 13:25 GMT
Social networking website, Facebook has passed the one billion customer accounts landmark, of which the company says 600 million visit the mobile website at least once per month....more

South Koream Smartphone User Base Passes 30 Million Mark
August 23rd 2012 - 12:25 GMT
The number of smartphone users in South Korea passed the 30 million mark earlier this week, which represents around 60% of the mobile phone market....more

France Passes 70 Million Mobile Subscriber Landmark
August 2nd 2012 - 17:35 GMT
The French telecoms regulator, Arcep has announced that there were 70.4 million mobile subscribers in France in the second quarter of 2012....more

South Korean LTE Subscriber Base Reaches 8.4 Million
July 23rd 2012 - 11:35 GMT
South Korea's LTE subscriber base has reached 8.4 million, with the figure expected to nearly double by the end of this year....more

Ubiquisys Passes 50,000 Public Access Small Cell Milestone
June 14th 2012 - 15:16 GMT
Ubiquisys has confirmed that it now has more than 50,000 public access small cells commercially deployed by operators in several countries....more

Germans Send on Average Two SMS Each a Day
May 11th 2012 - 10:39 GMT
On average, each German sent 1.8 SMS a day last year, the regulator, the Bundesnetzagentur announced, saying that it arrived at the figure on the basis of data from the mobile operators....more

India Adds 6.87 Million New GSM Subscribers in March
April 22nd 2012 - 09:21 GMT
India added a total of 6.87 million net new GSM subscribers in March, according to data from the Cellular Operators Association of India....more

Apple Passes 25 Billionth Mobile App Download
March 5th 2012 - 14:47 GMT
Apple today announced that more than 25 billion apps have been downloaded from its App Store by the users of the more than 315 million iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices worldwide....more

Nepal Mobile Subscriber Base Reaches 13.6 Million
March 5th 2012 - 08:48 GMT
Nepal's total telephone customer base reached 15.33 million at the middle of January, according to the Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA). The overall teledensity reached 57.56 percent....more

3G/UMTS Mobile Subscriber Base Passes One Billion Landmark
January 23rd 2012 - 16:55 GMT
The UMTS Forum has announced that global connections to the 3GPP family of Third Generation/IMT-2000 mobile networks have passed the one billion mark....more

China Ends 2011 With 128 Million 3G Subscribers
January 18th 2012 - 12:46 GMT
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has announced that there were 128 million 3G subscribers in the country at the end of 2011....more

China Passes 100 Million Customer Mark for 3G Services
October 27th 2011 - 17:46 GMT
China's 3G subscriber base passed the 100 million mark during September, ending the month with 102 million customers, ...more

India's Wireless Subscriber Base Grew by 7.34 Million in August
October 24th 2011 - 17:12 GMT
India's Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has reported that the country's total wireless subscriber base increased from 858.37 million in July 2011 to 865.71 million at the end of August 2011, registering a growth of 0.86%. ...more

Vodafone Ghana Close to Overtaking Rival Operator
October 24th 2011 - 08:56 GMT
Vodafone's Ghana operations are expected to overtake Tigo as the country's second largest mobile network by subscribers before the end of this year....more

3GPP Wireless Technologies Pass 5 Billion Global Connections
September 16th 2011 - 08:35 GMT
3GPP wireless technologies passed the 5 billion connection mark in the second quarter of 2011, marking a significant milestone in the telecommunications and Internet technology industries,...more

Indian Mobile Subscriber Base Passed 851 Million Customers
August 8th 2011 - 19:11 GMT
India's wireless subscriber base increased from 840.28 million in May 2011 to 851.70 million at the end of June 2011, registering a growth of 1.36%, according to data supplied by the telecom regulator....more

Wireless Broadband Subscriptions Top Half a Billion, Says OECD
June 23rd 2011 - 10:44 GMT
Wireless broadband subscriptions in the 32 developed countries that make up the OECD had exceeded half a billion by the end of 2010, an increase of more than 10 percent on June 2010, according to new OECD statistics....more

SingTel Says Total Group Customer Base Passes 400 Million Mark
May 11th 2011 - 08:58 GMT
Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) today announced that the Group - and its subsidiaries - has achieved a new milestone by surpassing the 400 million mobile customer mark....more

MTN's Worldwide Subscriber Base Rises 4% in Three Months
May 6th 2011 - 15:47 GMT
South Africa's MTN Group has reported that its subscriber base rose by 4% over the first three months of 2011 to reach 147.27 million at the end of March....more

Indian Mobile Subscriber Base Passes 800 Million Mark
May 2nd 2011 - 17:12 GMT
The total wireless subscriber base increased from 791.38 million in February 2011 to 811.59 million at the end of March 2011, registering a growth of 2.55%. ...more

Softbank Mobile Tops Japanese Subscriber Growth for 2010
April 8th 2011 - 12:00 GMT
Japanese mobile network, Softbank Mobile was the top net gainer of new subscribers during fiscal year, 2010 for the first time in two years....more

India Added Over 20 Million New Mobile Subscribers in February
April 7th 2011 - 11:47 GMT
India's telecoms regulator, TRAI has announced that the country added just over 20 million net new mobile phone subscribers during February....more

Indian Telecoms User Base Passes 800 Million Mark
March 9th 2011 - 11:44 GMT
The number of telephone subscribers in India passed the 800 million mark at the end of January, the telecoms regulator, TRAI has announced. ...more

Chinese 3G Subscriber Base Tops 50 Million
February 28th 2011 - 14:57 GMT
The number of 3G subscribers in China has passed the 50 million mark - three years after the networks first launched their commercial services....more

Global HSPA Mobile Broadband Connections Have Surpassed 400 Million
February 14th 2011 - 08:22 GMT
There are now over 400 million mobile broadband subscribers using HSPA networks, according to figures released by the GSM Association. ...more

SingTel Group's Mobile Customer Base Reaches 383 Million
February 9th 2011 - 13:33 GMT
Singapore's SingTel has announced that the Group recorded another strong quarter of customer acquisitions. The Group served 383 million mobile customers in 25 countries at the end of 2010, an increase of 34 percent or 98.1 million from a year ago....more

France Almost Hit 100% Population Penetration at the End of 2010
February 4th 2011 - 09:00 GMT
A brief flurry of statistics was published by the French telecoms regulator without any commentary, but revealed that France had 64.4 million SIM cards in late December 2010. ...more