By 30th June 2007, about 6.8 millions Tanzanians (at most) owned voice telephone lines. This is an increase of about 9% from March 2007. The mobile voice telecommunication leads the market by having more subscriptions (98%) as compared to fixed line services (2%) as shown in the table below.

The trend shows that mobile telephone subscribers are exponentially increasing as compared to fixed lines

The annual number of Tanzanian subscribing for a voice telephone lines grows at an average rate of 41%. The mobile telephone number grows exponentially at the rate of 118% while fixed lines grows at 6%

In terms of population coverage, about 17 out of 100 Tanzanians own voice telephone line. This is an increase of 1% as compared to March 2007. The data further shows that majority of Tanzanian (83%) have no telephone lines.

The trend of subscription among operators over the period does not demonstrate high competition. The Table below shows that Vodacom is leading the market in terms of number of subscribers with half (50%) of all voice telephone subscribers in the country. Celtel ranks second with 28% of subscribers followed by Tigo (12%), Zantel (7%) and TTCL (2%)