The
Telecommunications Regulatory Authority just issued a statement on the amount of mobile subscribers in the UAE as well as the country's penetration rate.
As it stands, there are 10 million mobile subscribers in the UAE, a figure that has doubled in the past four years, the TRA said. The country's penetration rate now stands "over 200 per cent".
After UAE telecoms operators Etisalat and du issued their third-quarter results, I did a little bit of math and found that the two combines control a combined 10.6 million subscribers in the country. The discrepancy? The TRA takes into account active subscribers, which the organisation defines "as having placed or received a call or SMS within a 90 day period."
We've put a call into the TRA to get some updated numbers as well as market share figures, so watch this space. In the meantime, the TRA's press release,
originally found here, is after the jump.
