Egypt loses 850,000 mobile phone subscribers

The number of mobile phone subscribers in Egypt declined by 850,000, or 0.9 percent, to settle at 93.5 million in August 2015, a report by the country’s Communications and Information Technology Ministry said.The report released on Sunday, said the number had dropped slightly from the 94.35 million in July 2015.

it said the number of mobile phone subscribers decreased by 2.44 percent in August 2015 compared to the same month last year.

It also revealed that landline subscriptions fell by 12.5 percent year-over-year to 6 million in August 2015.