France vs Italy: Mobile cellular subscriptions

France
77.53 million
in 2023
Italy
78.67 million
in 2024
France rank
26th
Italy rank
25th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • France
  • Italy
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How they compare

Italy currently reports 78.67 million against 77.53 million in France, a difference of 1.15 million.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 52 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Italy ahead.

Globally, France ranks 26th and Italy ranks 25th of 213 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Mobile cellular subscriptions
Source
World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
260 places, 13,039 data points, 1960–2025
Last refreshed

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.