Egypt: Mobile phone subscribers hit 53.43m

	MENAFN - 08/11/2009

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(MENAFN) Egypt's national telecom regulator said that the total number of mobile subscribers in Egypt reached 53.43 million at the end of September 2009, a jump of around 40 percent from the previous year, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The total mobile penetration in the most populous Arab country reached around 69.8 percent, the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, or NTRA, said.

Subscribers of Mobinil, the country's largest operator, reached 24.64 million by September 2009, giving it a 46.1 percent market share.

Subscribers of Etisalat Egypt, a subsidiary of UAE-based Etisalat, were 6.30 million in September 2009, with an 11.8 percent market share, while subscribers of Vodafone Egypt reached 22.49 million by September 2009, a 42.1 percent market share.

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