9.5 million South African adults say MTN is their cellular network provider. 7% (642,000) use the MTN banking facility, the MTN Mobile Money account. (AMPS2009A)
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Monday’s fact said there were 16.4 million MTN subscribers. Now you say 9.6 million.
The 16.4 million figure is from MTN – they are counting “customers who have participated in a revenue generating activity in the last 90 days.” The 9.6 million is from AMPS, a national survey where South African adults were asked which network they use.
The difference is largely due to (a) some have more than one sim card, (b) sim cards belonging to kids, or people who would not be part of the AMPS survey for some reason (illegal immigrants, perhaps), (c) sim cards which people regard as dormant, but MTN doesn’t.
Perhaps MTN can be more authoritative. Anybody?
Amnon’s comment above is 100% correct in terms of explaining the difference. The only thing that I would add is telemetry devices using SIMS and foreigners/ immigrants that wouldn’t be included in the AMPS universe.