By 31st March 2007, about 6.3 millions Tanzanians (at most) owned voice telephone lines. The mobile voice telecommunication leads the market by having more subscriptions (6.2 millions) as compared to fixed line services (0.14 millions) as shown in the table below.

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

In terms of population coverage, about 16 out of 100 Tanzanians own voice telephone line. That means, only 16% of Tanzanians own telephone lines while majority (84%) of Tanzanian 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 about half (51%) of all voice telephone subscribers in the country. Celtel ranks second with 26% of subscribers followed by Tigo (13%), Zantel (7%) and TTCL (3%)