Khaberni - The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority published on its website today, Thursday, its statistical report for the fourth quarter of the last year for the telecommunications sector.
According to the report, the total number of subscribers to fixed voice telecommunications services reached about 4,772 thousand in the fourth quarter compared to approximately 4,859 thousand in the fourth quarter of 2024, with a decrease of 1.8 percent. The residential sector represents 67 percent of the total, and the commercial sector 33 percent.
Regarding the volume of telephone traffic consumed by subscribers via fixed telephone, the report indicated that about 7.9 million minutes of calls were recorded during the fourth quarter compared to about 11.3 million minutes of calls for the fourth quarter of 2024, declining by 30 percent, including local terrestrial telephone traffic between provinces and international telephone traffic with countries around the world, distributed at 82 percent local traffic and 18 percent of the minutes of calls for international telephone traffic.
The report clarified that the total subscriptions for mobile broadband services reached 8.5 million subscriptions compared to about 8.04 million subscriptions for the fourth quarter of 2024, with a growth rate of 5.7 percent, distributed at 63 percent for prepaid and 37 percent subscription for postpaid; voice and data lines constituted 80 percent, and data-only lines 20 percent.
The volume of mobile voice telephone traffic was about 6.9 billion minutes, distributed at 97 percent locally and 3 percent internationally.
The report pointed out that the number of text messages sent during the fourth quarter of last year was about 331 million text messages compared to about 575.9 million messages in the fourth quarter of 2024, with a decrease of 42.5 percent.
It added that the penetration rate of mobile phone subscriptions by the end of the fourth quarter of 2025 was 71.5 percent according to the total population compared to 68.6 percent in the same period of 2024, with a penetration rate of 110 percent according to the number of people aged over 15 years.
Furthermore, the volume of data usage through mobile broadband services was about 813.9 million gigabytes in the fourth quarter of 2025 compared with about 657.9 million gigabytes in the fourth quarter of 2024, with a growth rate of 23.7 percent.
Regarding fixed broadband Internet services, the report indicated nearly 828.5 thousand subscriptions compared to a total of 812.2 thousand subscriptions in the fourth quarter of 2024 with a growth rate of 2 percent; the penetration rate amounted to 33.3 percent of households for the fourth quarter of 2025. Meanwhile, fixed broadband Internet subscriptions using FBWA technology constituted 16 percent, while xDSL services were 5 percent, and fiber services were 79 percent at the end of the fourth quarter, where fiber Internet subscriptions totaled 652.2 thousand subscriptions during the fourth quarter of 2025.
The volume of fixed broadband data usage was about 1.6 billion gigabytes for the fourth quarter of 2025 compared with 1.3 billion gigabytes in the fourth quarter of 2024, with a growth rate of 23.1 percent; the average monthly usage of fixed Internet was 662 gigabytes per subscription, which was about 550 gigabytes in the fourth quarter of 2024, with a growth rate of 20.4 percent.
The report noted that the number of fifth-generation mobile subscriptions continued to rise significantly in the fourth quarter of 2025, totaling 320.7 thousand subscriptions compared with the third quarter of 2025, which was about 286.5 thousand subscriptions, with a growth rate of about 11.9 percent, representing a growth of 184 percent from the fourth quarter of 2024 when the number of subscriptions at that time was 112.9 thousand.
The report pointed out that the number of leased line service subscriptions reached 25.9 thousand subscriptions at the end of the fourth quarter of 2025 compared with 24.1 thousand subscriptions in the fourth quarter of 2024, with a growth rate of 7.5 percent.
