
Brazil: Mobile phone subscribers
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Brazil |
Mobile phone subscribers, in millions |
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Latest value | 205.83 |
Reference | 2020 |
Measure | million subscribers |
Source | The International Telecommunication Union |
For that indicator, we provide data for Brazil from 1960 to 2020. The average value for Brazil during that period was 69.99 million subscribers with a minimum of 0 million subscribers in 1960 and a maximum of 280.73 million subscribers in 2014.
The latest value from 2020 is 205.83 million subscribers. For comparison, the world average in 2020 based on 197
countries is 43.85 million subscribers.
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Definition: Mobile cellular telephone subscriptions are subscriptions to a public mobile telephone service that provide access to the PSTN using cellular technology. The indicator includes (and is split into) the number of postpaid subscriptions, and the number of active prepaid accounts (i.e. that have been used during the last three months). The indicator applies to all mobile cellular subscriptions that offer voice communications. It excludes subscriptions via data cards or USB modems, subscriptions to public mobile data services, private trunked mobile radio, telepoint, radio paging and telemetry services.