Kenya’s mobile phone subscribers now over 30 million, penetration 77%

According to the latest statistics report published by the Communications Commission of Kenya for the July to September 2012 quarter, the country’s  mobile penetration rate grew to 77.2% (from 75% in the previous quarter) on a mobile subscriber base of 30.4 million active SIM cards.

Here are other subscriber and usage stats revealed in the report, which you can download here:

• Prepaid subscriber consist 99% of all mobile subscribers. A pattern quite normal on the continent
• Minutes of Use (MoU) per subscriber per month increased to 76.7 from 71.2 recorded in the previous period, representing a growth of 7.7%
• SMS messages sent in the period increased by 10.1 percent to reach 1 billion.
• Fixed line subscriptions declined by 5.8% with a total number of 248,300, down from 262,711 subscriptions in the previous quarter.
• Mobile data/internet subscriptions comprise 99.2%  of all total Internet/data subscriptions.
• The number of estimated internet users rose by  10% to stand at  13.53  million users.
• Broadband subscriptions  grew by  38.4% from 726,802 subscriptions recorded during the previous period to  1,006,071  subscriptions.
• International internet used bandwidth for the period was 278,329 Mbps up from 264,584 Mbps recorded in the previous period. The total available bandwidth in the country was 576,186 Mbps
• Under postal and courier sector, the number of letters sent locally increased by 5.9% to reach 17.7 million letters, up from 16.7 million letters posted the previous quarter. Compared to the same period of the previous year, there was a decline of 14.3%.

Report via: BiztechAfrica
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