{"id":26640,"date":"2025-07-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/26640\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T07:16:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:16:36","slug":"omans-telecom-sector-powers-ahead-with-surge-in-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/26640\/","title":{"rendered":"Oman\u2019s telecom sector powers ahead with surge in connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest statistics issued by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncsi.gov.om\/ar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Centre for Statistics and Information<\/a> show a significant growth in telecommunications in the Sultanate of Oman, driven by the expansion of digital services and the growing reliance on smart solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The data show that active postpaid mobile subscriptions rose by 5.6% to reach 1,239,509 subscriptions by the end of May 2025, compared to the same period in 2024. Active prepaid mobile subscriptions grew by 3.1%, reaching 5,335,847 subscriptions. Subscriptions to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet_of_things\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internet of Things (IoT)<\/a> services recorded exceptional growth of 118.7%, reaching 1,554,999 subscriptions by the end of May 2025.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statistics, the total number of mobile service subscriptions in Oman reached 8,130,355 by the end of May 2025, marking a 15.2% increase compared to May 2024. Active subscriptions to mobile broadband internet totalled 5,414,124 by the end of May 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Active fixed broadband internet subscriptions rose by 2.6%, reaching 588,015 subscriptions by the end of May 2025, compared to the same period in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Fibre-optic services saw an 11.4% increase, with subscriptions reaching 339,279. Fixed 5G subscriptions also grew by 2.1%, reaching 215,850 by the end of May 2025. In contrast, fixed 4G subscriptions dropped by 38.1% to 19,654.<\/p>\n<p>Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) subscriptions declined by 50.8%, totalling 11,806 subscriptions. Satellite subscriptions also fell by 2.1%, reaching 653.<\/p>\n<p>Other subscriptions\u2014which include internet via power lines, Ethernet, and leased internet lines\u2014fell by 12%, recording 773 subscriptions by the end of May 2025 compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Significant growth is being driven by an expansion of digital services especially the Internet of Things<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-posts-and-videos","category-trade-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43780,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26640\/revisions\/43780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}