Egypt crossed the 60 million mobile phone users mark

Friday, September 17th, 2010

Egypt, one of the largest mobile communications markets in the Middle East and Africa region, has performed well once again by managing to attract over 3 million new users of mobile phone services in the quarter to June 2010, thus propelling the overall nationwide subscriber base to more than 60.8 million according to latest updates by Dataxis Intelligence, the leading Analysts firm.

This represents an uptake of about 6% sequentially and 25% on a yearly basis which led the penetration to 79% of the population which still remains one of the lowest in the Arab world.

As far as the market structure is concerned, there are three MNOs that are competing in the provision of cellular services, Mobinil the leader by subscriptions holds a 43% market share followed closely by Vodafone with 42% while the last entrant Etisalat managed to grab the remaining 15% as features it well the pie chart below.

Source: Dataxis Intelligence