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Mozambique: Mobile communications loses 2.5% turnover in 2021 after gaining 3.1% in 2020
3:54 CAT | 24 Oct 2022
The Mozambican mobile communications market lost 2.5% of turnover in 2021, according to the latest data released by the National Statistics Institute (INE).
“The turnover in mobile telephony registered a negative change of around 2.5% compared to the previous year,” reads the new statistical bulletin dedicated to the transport and telecommunications sector.
The drop is, nonetheless, smaller than the growth registered previously.
In 2020, the year with the greatest impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, turnover had grown by 3.1% to 33.9 billion meticais (€540 million).
The biggest fluctuations were registered in the number of postpaid subscribers, which increased by 130% in 2020 to around 672,000, but in 2021 fell by 85% to around 100,000, below the 2019 figure, says the INE.
Figures provided by the National Institute of Telecommunications of Mozambique (INCM) also indicate that the sector lost 28% of its staff between 2020 and 2021, falling to a total of 2,761 workers.
In another chapter, the INE bulletin indicates that transport in Mozambique recovered in 2021 part of the passengers and cargo lost because of Covid-19, but still fell short of pre-pandemic values.
“In 2021, the transport of goods recorded an increase of 19.8%, while the passengers transported had a growth of 3.7%,” the document reads.
Even so, the numbers place 2021 among the worst of the last six years (from 2017 onwards) only surpassed by the break in 2020, with data for this year still not known.
Source: Lusa
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