{"id":388934,"date":"2021-03-12T15:01:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T13:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=388934"},"modified":"2021-03-12T15:05:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T13:05:05","slug":"mobile-subscribers-compared-mtn-vs-vodacom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/388934-mobile-subscribers-compared-mtn-vs-vodacom.html","title":{"rendered":"Mobile subscribers compared – MTN vs Vodacom"},"content":{"rendered":"

MTN recently published its financial results<\/a><\/strong> for the year ended 31 December 2020, showing steady subscriber growth in South Africa.<\/p>\n

The mobile network remains a top-two operator and is well ahead of Telkom and Cell C.<\/p>\n

It falls behind Vodacom in the number of total subscribers, but it has held the title of the best network in South Africa for the past three years – making it a competitive option considering its similar data and contract pricing.<\/p>\n

MTN saw service revenue grow by 1.9% in South Africa and 11.9% across the group over its last financial year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe continued to perform favourably against our medium-term targets,\u201d said MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita.<\/p>\n

MTN also plans to invest approximately R29.1 billion in its network, fintech, and digital services platforms in 2021.<\/p>\n

Mobile subscribers compared<\/h3>\n

To see the total mobile subscriber numbers in South Africa, we compared prepaid and postpaid subscribers counts from Vodacom, MTN, Cell C, and Telkom.<\/p>\n

MTN\u2019s financial results for the year ended 31 December 2020<\/strong><\/a> reflected that it has a local mobile subscriber base of 28.6 million subscribers, comprising 25.3 million prepaid and 3.3 million postpaid customers (excluding telemetry customers).<\/p>\n

Vodacom\u2019s trading update for the quarter ended 31 December 2020<\/strong><\/a> showed it now has 44.3 million customers in South Africa, comprising 38.1 million prepaid and 6.2 million contract customers.<\/p>\n

Cell C\u2019s latest financial results<\/strong><\/a> reflect 9.3 million South African customers, which comprises 8.35 million prepaid customers and 968,000 contract customers.<\/p>\n

Telkom\u2019s financial results for the period ended 31 December 2020<\/strong><\/a> showed that it had a total of 14.9 million mobile subscribers, comprising 12.3 million prepaid users and 2.6 million contract customers.<\/p>\n

The table below shows the breakdown of mobile subscribers in South Africa, according to the latest information available.<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Network<\/th>\nPrepaid<\/th>\nPostpaid<\/th>\nTotal<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Vodacom<\/strong><\/td>\n38.1 million<\/td>\n6.2 million<\/td>\n44.3 million<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MTN<\/strong><\/td>\n25.3 million<\/td>\n3.3 million<\/td>\n28.6 million<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cell C<\/strong><\/td>\n8.35 million<\/td>\n968,000<\/td>\n9.3 million<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Telkom<\/strong><\/td>\n12.3 million<\/td>\n2.6 million<\/td>\n14.9 million<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Now read: Vodacom and Google give away hundreds of smartphones<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is how mobile networks in South Africa stack up in terms of subscribers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":262639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[355,35,33997,42,75,20951,109,41],"class_list":["post-388934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-mobile-networks","tag-mtn","tag-south-africa","tag-subscribers","tag-telkom","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}