Egypt loses mobile subscribers, gains landline subscribers in 2018

The number of mobile service subscribers in Egypt declined 4.6% y-o-y to reach 95.73 mn at the end of June 2018, down from 100.31 mn in June 2017, according to an ICT Ministry report picked up by Al Masry Al Youm. The number of landline subscribers, meanwhile, grew by 17.6% y-o-y to record 7.40 mn in June this year, compared to 6.29 mn in June 2017.