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Mobile cellular subscriptions

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.

wb-indicators:IT.CEL.SETS

Mobile cellular subscriptions

World Bank

Publisher
World Bank
Source
World Bank Indicators (wb-indicators)
Status
Active
Formats
JSON
Licence
CC-BY-4.0 — World Bank Terms — CC BY 4.0 (Indicators API) · open
Standard
WB API v2
Dataset id
wb-indicators:IT.CEL.SETS
Last verified
2026-08-16