Muscat: The latest data from the National Center for Statistics and Information (NCSI) shows that Oman’s telecommunications sector continued to achieve remarkable growth rates by the end of July 2025.<\/p>\n
The statistics reveal that the total number of mobile service subscriptions reached 8,153,859 by the end of July 2025, a 15.5% increase compared to the same period in 2024.<\/p>\n
Postpaid mobile subscriptions increased by 3.3% to 1,241,626, while prepaid subscriptions rose by 4.9% to 5,342,870.<\/p>\n
Internet of Things (IoT) subscriptions saw exceptional growth of 105%, reaching 1,569,363.<\/p>\n
As for internet services, mobile broadband subscriptions rose to 5,595,686, while fixed broadband subscriptions increased by 2.9% to 591,972.<\/p>\n
Fiber optic subscriptions grew by 11.2% to 344,505 and fixed 5G subscriptions increased by 1.8% to 217,657.<\/p>\n
In contrast, subscriptions for some older technologies declined as fixed 4G subscriptions dropped by 41.2% to 17,261 and Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) subscriptions fell by 47.5% to 11,036.<\/p>\n
Satellite subscriptions, however, increased by 13% to 754.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, other subscriptions (including internet over power lines, Ethernet, and leased lines) decreased by 11.9% to 759 by the end of July 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Muscat: The latest data from the National Center for Statistics and Information (NCSI) shows that Oman’s telecommunications sector…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[220,19537,19536,85,123,46,630,19531,19530,19534,19527,2595,19526,19528,19532,19535,19529,125,19525,19533,126],"class_list":["post-20634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-breaking-news","tag-expats","tag-expats-in-oman","tag-il","tag-internet","tag-israel","tag-latest-news","tag-muscat","tag-muscat-daily","tag-news-in-oman","tag-news-oman","tag-oman","tag-oman-news","tag-oman-news-agency","tag-oman-observer","tag-oman-time-now","tag-ona","tag-technology","tag-times-of-oman","tag-times-of-oman-newspaper","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}