Table 1 Summary table with the mobile phone penetration rate in each country, market share of each MNO, number of subscribers in each dataset, time period covered by the data, and number of towers.

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Country

Penetration rate, unique subscribers (Country)

Mobile network operator

Market share (MNO)

Number of SIMs (MNO)

Time period

Number of tower voronois

Bangladesh

42% [Ref 1, Table 5]

Grameenphone

42.2% [Ref 2, p.2]

~48 million [Ref 3] [also: ref 2, p. 2]

November 2013–March 2014a

6858

Namibia

51% [Ref 4, Fig. 3]

MTC

76%

~3 million

1 January 2013–31 December 2013

642

Nepal

39% [Ref 5, Table 5]

Ncell

49.3% [Ref 5, Table 4]

~12 million [Ref 6, Table 2]

1 January 2015–7 April 2015

2560

  1. aExcluding January 2014. [Ref 1] https://www.gsma.com/mobilefordevelopment/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Country_Overview_Bangladesh_.pdf. Accessed 11 Mar 2020. Barbara Arese Lucini and Tim Hatt, Country overview: Bangladesh, GSMA Intelligence, published August 2014. [Ref 2] https://www.grameenphone.com/sites/default/files/investor_relations/financial_reports/management/MAD%202Q2014.pdf. Accessed 11 Mar 2020. Grameenphone Ltd.: 2nd Quarter 2014 Business Highlights. [Ref 3] http://www.btrc.gov.bd/content/mobile-phone-subscribers-bangladesh-january-2014. [Ref 4] https://web.archive.org/web/20180427174946/https://www.gsma.com/mobileeconomy/archive/GSMA_ME_SubSaharanAfrica_2013.pdf. Accessed 11 Mar 2020. Sub-Saharan Africa Mobile Economy 2013, GSMA Intelligence, 2013. [Ref 5] https://www.gsma.com/mobilefordevelopment/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/NCell-report-October-2015.pdf. Accessed 11 Mar 2020. Rahul Shah, “Mobile for Development Utilities—Assessing the opportunity to improve energy access: Ncell in Nepal”, September 2015. [Ref 6] http://nta.gov.np/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/NTA-MIS-95.pdf. Accessed 5 Dec 2018. NTA MIS Report, Issue 75 vol 123, published April 2015.
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