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How Malaysia shifted between prepaid and postpaid mobile subscriptions
Annual prepaid and postpaid cellular subscriptions reported by Malaysian telecommunications providers to MCMC.
SHOW ME THE DATA2000 → 2021 · cellular subscriptions
VIEW DATA ASSame source · different visual lens
PULSEKITA VERSUS2000 — 2021
MCMC
SourceMalaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC)
2000
Postpaid0
VS
Prepaid0
Level
200020002021
MCMCMalaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC)cellular subscriptions
SourceMalaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) ↗Dataset through 2021HIGH CONFIDENCE
Method & notes
The series tracks subscriptions rather than people, so it is best read as a market-structure indicator.
METHOD & LIMITATIONSHow the numbers were calculated
PulseKita reads MCMC's official cellular_subscribers dataset from data.gov.my and plots prepaid and postpaid subscriptions by year. The dataset counts subscriptions, not unique people.
- One person can hold multiple mobile subscriptions, so totals can exceed the population.
- This dataset is historical and currently runs through 2021; it should not be presented as the latest 2026 telco market share.
- Prepaid and postpaid are plan types, not telco-company market-share categories.
Evidence trail
EVIDENCE CHAINtransformation inherited from methodology
- 1Declared sourceCellular Subscribers by Plan Type
- 2TransformationPulseKita reads MCMC's official cellular_subscribers dataset from data.gov.my and plots prepaid and postpaid subscriptions by year. The dataset counts subscriptions, not unique people.
- 3Published visualVersus
Source
HIGH CONFIDENCEofficial primary
COVERAGE2000 → 2021
UNITcellular subscriptions
SOURCEofficial publication
UPDATEDDataset through 2021