The number mobile phone subscribers and Internet users is continuing to decrease in Tajikistan.
According to the statistical data from the Communications Service under the Government of Tajikistan, the number of mobile phone subscribers has decreased in Tajikistan this year by nearly 1.4 million people.
As of July 1, 2017, a total number of mobile phone subscribers in Tajikistan was more than 7.3 million. As of January 1, 2017, a total number of mobile phone subscribers in the country was more than 8.7 million.
The number of active mobile phone subscribers reportedly also decreased in the country — from 4,4 million on January 1, 2017 to little more than 4.3 million on July 1, 2017.
Last year, a total number of mobile phone subscriber decreased by 2.5 million people and the number of active mobile phone subscribers decreased by 800,000 people.
Recall, the deputy chairperson of the Communications Service under the Government of Tajikistan, Ms. Tatiana Kholmurodova, announced at a news conference in Dushanbe on July 31, 2013 that nearly 10 million mobile phone subscribers had been registered in Tajikistan, which had the population of 8 million people that time.
Meanwhile, the country’s communications service agency says that as of July 1,2017, a total number of Internet users in Tajikistan was 2.3 million. As of January 1, 2017, a total number of Internet users in Tajikistan was 2.6 million
InternetLiveStats last year ranked Tajikistan 114th among 200 nations in terms of the number of Internet users. More than 1.6 million Internet users were reported in Tajikistan by July 1 last year, which was 18.7 percent of the country’s population. Compared to 2015, the number of Internet users in Tajikistan reportedly increased over the first six months of 2016 by 4.3 percent or 67,200 people.
InternetLiveStats notes that Internet user is an individual who has access to the Internet at home; this indicator does not record use, or frequency of use, but only access.
Some independent experts consider that decrease in the number of mobile phone subscribers and Internet users in Tajikistan has resulted from the rising tariffs and deteriorating quality of communications.
