6.56 MILLION KUWAITI SUBSCRIBERS ARE SERVED BY NINE COMPANIES CALL OR INTERNET SERVICES

  • 28/09/2022

Kuwait City: According to a recent government report, Kuwait has 6.56 million subscribers overall in the communications and IT sector, and there are nine companies that offer call or internet services. According to a report published by the Communications and Information Technology Regulatory Authority (CITRA), with 6.5 million subscribers out of a total of 6.56 million in the nine companies, the three major telecom companies that offer call and internet bundles are at the top of the list of companies in Kuwait with the largest subscriber bases. 


One of the major companies alone has 2.297 million customers, which accounts for roughly 53.1% of Kuwait's population. The second company buys 2.292 million customers, which accounts for 52.9% of Kuwait's population, and the third company owns 1.917 million customers, which accounts for 44.3% of Kuwait's population. The subscriber-to-population ratio for the other six Internet service-specific companies, which have a combined subscriber base of about 53.69 thousand, is less than 1%. One company captured 35.3% of the market share for the three telecom companies operating in Kuwait, followed by the second company with 35.2% and the third with 29.5%. 

The employment of citizens by the government is increased thanks to the number of jobs the communications and information technology sector in Kuwait offers, which also helps to open up new employment opportunities for job seekers. With 1,614 male and female employees, the three major telecom companies account for 61.2% of the jobs in Kuwait's telecommunications industry. Of these, 62.2% are nationals, or 1004 male and female citizens, and the remaining 37.8%, or 610 male and female employees, are expatriates. 

The Communications Authority's mandate is to monitor and follow up on advertisement offers for telecom companies that are under the Market Affairs Department's supervision in the competition market sector. In 2021, telecom companies and Internet service providers submitted about 459 promotional offers for their products; the total approvals for all of these offers and advertisements for telecom companies reached about 427 approvals, while the approvals amounted to ISPs only. Regarding the authority's licences, there were about 38 approvals pertaining to it, including one for the modern communications sector and 37 for renting out information and computer services (SMS).

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