Ethiopia vs Tanzania: Mobile cellular subscriptions
Mobile cellular subscriptions over time
- Ethiopia
- Tanzania
How they compare
Tanzania currently reports 86.77 million against 85.95 million in Ethiopia, a difference of 821,400.
The two have swapped places 4 times across 52 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Tanzania ahead.
Globally, Ethiopia ranks 23rd and Tanzania ranks 22nd 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.