Oman sees 9.7% increase in postpaid mobile subscriptions

Oman sees 9.7% increase in postpaid mobile subscriptions

Muscat: Statistics issued by the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI) indicated an increase in postpaid mobile phone subscriptions by 9.7 percent to 1.78 subscriptions.

The number of prepaid mobile phone subscriptions also increased by 1.5 percent to reach 5.19 million subscriptions. Among these subscriptions were 3.93 million from operators and 1.26 million subscriptions from resale. This represented an increase in the total number of mobile phone subscriptions by 3.5 percent at the end of 2023. The total number of mobile phone subscriptions (postpaid and prepaid) reached 6.98 subscriptions.

The number of active mobile broadband subscriptions recorded an increase of 5.5 percent until the end of December 2023 compared to the same period in 2022. Fixed Internet service subscriptions also recorded an increase of 4.6 percent to reach 563,708 subscriptions compared to the same period in 2022.

The total subscriptions to fixed broadband service (more than 256KB/s) amounted to about 561,983 subscriptions at the end of 2023, an increase of 4.7 percent compared to the end of 2022, while the number of subscriptions via low-speed Internet (less than 256 KB/s) decreased. This includes telephone calls and some rented Internet lines at a rate of 0.1 percent, reaching 1,725 subscriptions.

Statistics further indicated an