Russia vs United States: Mobile cellular subscriptions
Mobile cellular subscriptions over time
- Russia
- United States
How they compare
United States currently reports 390.99 million against 269.52 million in Russia, a difference of 121.47 million.
That makes United States's figure about 1.5 times Russia's.
Across all 50 years both countries report, United States has been ahead every year.
Globally, Russia ranks 5th and United States ranks 3rd 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.