Egypt vs South Africa: Mobile cellular subscriptions
Mobile cellular subscriptions over time
- Egypt
- South Africa
How they compare
South Africa currently reports 114.79 million against 113.19 million in Egypt, a difference of 1.59 million.
The two have swapped places 6 times across 53 shared years of data; in 1960 it was South Africa ahead.
Globally, Egypt ranks 17th and South Africa ranks 16th of 213 countries.
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About this data
Mobile cellular telephone subscriptions are subscriptions to a public mobile telephone service that provide access to the PSTN using cellular technology. The indicator includes (and is split into) the number of postpaid subscriptions, and the number of active prepaid accounts (i.e. that have been used during the last three months). The indicator applies to all mobile cellular subscriptions that offer voice communications. It excludes subscriptions via data cards or USB modems, subscriptions to public mobile data services, private trunked mobile radio, telepoint, radio paging and telemetry services.