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Media > Telecommunications > Telephone > Mobile phone Stats: compare key data on Canada & South Africa

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STAT Canada South Africa HISTORY
Mobile number portability > Implementation date 2007.03.14 2006.11.10
Mobile penetration 50%
Ranked 32nd. 92% more than South Africa
26%
Ranked 62nd.
Mobile phones 26.54 million
Ranked 38th.
59.47 million
Ranked 22nd. 2 times more than Canada
Mobile subscriptions 17.16 million
Ranked 19th. 35% more than South Africa
12.7 million
Ranked 21st.
Mobile subscriptions per thousand people 496.5
Ranked 31st. 90% more than South Africa
261.28
Ranked 62nd.
Mobile-cellular telephone subscriptions 27.89 million
Ranked 37th.
68.39 million
Ranked 19th. 2 times more than Canada

Mobile-cellular telephone subscriptions per thousand people 799.53
Ranked 139th.
1,336.1
Ranked 41st. 67% more than Canada

SOURCES: Wikipedia: Mobile number portability (America); Wikipedia: List of countries by number of broadband Internet subscriptions (List of countries) ("Active mobile-broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants 2012" , Dynamic Report, ITU ITC EYE, International Telecommunication Union . Retrieved on 29 June 2013.); Wikipedia: List of countries by number of mobile phones in use; Wikipedia: List of countries by number of broadband Internet subscriptions (List of countries) (Calculated using penetration rate and population data from "Countries and Areas Ranked by Population: 2012" , Population data, International Programs, U.S. Census Bureau, retrieved 26 June 2013); Wikipedia: List of countries by number of broadband Internet subscriptions (List of countries) (Calculated using penetration rate and population data from "Countries and Areas Ranked by Population: 2012" , Population data, International Programs, U.S. Census Bureau, retrieved 26 June 2013). Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; International Telecommunications Union. Source tables; International Telecommunications Union. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.

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