{"id":51042,"date":"2026-07-16T07:40:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T07:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/51042\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T09:39:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T09:39:34","slug":"8-2-%d9%85%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%88%d9%86-%d8%a7%d8%b4%d8%aa%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%83-%d8%a8%d8%ae%d8%af%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%87%d8%a7%d8%aa%d9%81-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%aa%d9%86%d9%82%d9%84-%d9%81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/51042\/","title":{"rendered":"Oman&#8217;s mobile subscriptions top 8.2 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Total mobile subscriptions in the Sultanate of Oman rose to 8,246,003 by the end of May 2026, up 1.4% from the same period in 2025, according to the latest data released by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncsi.gov.om\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Centre for Statistics and Information<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Postpaid mobile subscriptions increased by 5.3% to 1,305,759, while prepaid subscriptions remained broadly stable at 5,242,015.<\/p>\n<p>Mobile subscriptions for Internet of Things services or Machine to Machine (M2M) connections continued to grow, rising 9.2% to 1,698,229 by the end of May 2026.<\/p>\n<p>In the internet sector, active mobile broadband subscriptions reached 5,489,728, while active fixed broadband subscriptions totalled 590,500.<\/p>\n<p>Among fixed broadband technologies, fibre to the home and premises (FTTH) subscriptions increased 6.9% to 362,618, while fixed 5G subscriptions reached 210,337.<\/p>\n<p>Satellite internet recorded the fastest growth among fixed broadband technologies, with subscriptions surging 145.5% to 1,603.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, fixed 4G subscriptions fell 69% to 6,102, while digital subscriber line (DSL) subscriptions declined 22.8%\u00a0 to 9,114.<\/p>\n<p>Other fixed internet technologies, including power line communications, Ethernet and leased internet lines, also declined by 6.1% to 726 subscriptions by the end of May 2026 compared with the same period last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Total mobile subscriptions are up 1.4% on 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":51040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[303],"class_list":["post-51042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trade-news","tag-oman-2040-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51042","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51042"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51050,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51042\/revisions\/51050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}