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Collection: Total Mobile Phone Subscriptions

Dataset: Mobile Phone Subscriptions By Subscription Type

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Mobile Phone Subscriptions By Subscription Type

Data from Jul 2004 to Oct 2017

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:34 SGT

IMDA (Info-communications Media Development Authority)

Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_486512294c2ff0f6b37d5b49d9ac185b"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Info-communications Media Development Authority. (2015). Mobile Phone Subscriptions By Subscription Type (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved December 30, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_486512294c2ff0f6b37d5b49d9ac185b/view

About this dataset

Contact

info@imda.gov.sg

Created on

06 Jul 2015

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

IMDA (Info-communications Media Development Authority)

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Social

Mobile Phone Subscriptions By Subscription Type

Data from Jul 2004 to Oct 2017

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:34 SGT

IMDA (Info-communications Media Development Authority)

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Data explorer

MobilePhoneSubscriptionsBySubscriptionType.csv (664 rows, 18.8 KB)

Month Month (YYYY-MM)	Network access technology Text	Type of plan Text	Number of subscriptions Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2004-07	2G	pre-paid	1137000
2004-07	2G	post-paid	2553900
2004-08	2G	pre-paid	1151300
2004-08	2G	post-paid	2565300
2004-09	2G	pre-paid	1170900
2004-09	2G	post-paid	2570900
2004-10	2G	pre-paid	1182100
2004-10	2G	post-paid	2575200
2004-11	2G	pre-paid	1213700
2004-11	2G	post-paid	2585100

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Month	month	Month (YYYY-MM)	-	-
Network access technology	network_access_technology	Text	-	-
Type of plan	type_of_plan	Text	-	-
Number of subscriptions	number_of_subscriptions	Numeric	Subscriptions	-

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