rura data: Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA) rw.rura.mobile-money.quarterly quarterly

Active Mobile Money Agent SIM Cards.

VERSION v2026-07-06
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COVERAGE 2023-Q4 - present
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FREQUENCY quarterly
PIPELINE automated
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SOURCE www.rura.rw

Quarterly count of active mobile money agent SIM cards in Rwanda, by mobile operator (MTN and Airtel), from Table 6 (Section 1.5.3) of the RURA ICT Sector Statistics Report. These are the SIM cards used by the agents who handle cash-in and cash-out for mobile money customers, so the series measures the reach of each operator's distribution network rather than the number of subscribers. MTN runs by far the larger agent network and has slowly extended its lead, holding about three quarters of all active agents against Airtel's remaining share. Each report carries the most recent five quarters, so the series is assembled from the run of reports, preferring the most recent report for any restated quarter. The subscriber and linked-account totals are figure-encoded in the same section and are carried instead by the telecom dataset. RURA compiles the figures from the mobile operators under their licensing obligations.

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MOBILE MONEY

MTN keeps widening its grip on Rwanda's mobile money agents: its active agent SIM cards grew 42% to 146,892 between end-2023 and early 2026, lifting its share of the country's agent network to 75%, while Airtel's network barely moved.

Active mobile money agent SIM cards by operator · SIM cards · quarterly, Dec 2023 to Mar 2026

SOURCE: Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA) · via Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority · Active Mobile Money Agent SIM Cards · Updated 2026-07-06
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imibare contributors. (2026). Active Mobile Money Agent SIM Cards [Data set]. imibare. v2026-07-06. https://imibare.org/datasets/rw.rura.mobile-money.quarterly