Mobile phone connections by provider Germany

Vodafone was the largest provider with 78.53 million mobile connections in the fourth quarter of 2023. This is an increase of three million from the year before. The figures refer to the number of SIM cards in circulation and include cell phone contracts as well as prepaid connections and SIM cards that are used for automatic communication between machines (M2M).

Number of mobile phone connections in Germany from 1st quarter 2008 to 4th quarter 2023, by provider (in millions)

Characteristic	Deutsche Telekom (D1 network)	Vodafone (D2 network)	Telefonica (until Q3'14 o2 only (E2 network), starting Q4'14 incl. E-Plus (E1 network))*	E-Plus (E1 network)*
Q4 '23	61.42	78.53	45.07	-
Q3 '23	59.78	75.45	45.02	-
Q2 '23	57.7	75.16	44.59	-
Q1 '23	56.07	73.49	44.36	-
Q4 '22	54.25	70.44	44.31	-
Q3 '22	52.99	69.48	46.97	-
Q2 '22	54.55	67.57	46.7	-
Q1 '22	53.96	64.79	45.92	-
Q4 '21	53.21	62.41	45.69	-
Q3 '21	52.18	61.99	45.33	-
Q2 '21	50.27	59.95	44.97	-
Q1 '21	49.09	58.37	44.43	-
Q4 '20	48.53	57.2	44.28	-
Q3 '20	47.84	55.2	44.02	-
Q2 '20	47.4	53.1	43.52	-
Q1'20	46.96	52.3	44.84	-
Q4 '19	46.19	50.7	46.02	-
Q3 '19	45.6	46.9	45.7	-
Q2 '19	44.83	48.9	45.29	-
Q1 '19	44.66	47.9	45.12	-
Q4 '18	44.2	47.5	45.26	-
Q3 '18	43.65	46	45.38	-
Q2 '18	43.02	46.5	45.2	-
Q1 '18	42.73	46.3	45.29	-
Q4 '17	43.13	46	45.92	-
Q3 '17***	42.53	45.7	48.37	-
Q2 '17	42.01	45.2	45.19	-
Q1 '17	42.11	44.6	44.68	-
Q4 '16	41.85	43.7	44.32	-
Q3 '16	41.46	43.1	44.07	-
Q2 '16**	41.14	41.89	43.42	-
Q3 '15	39.89	30.22	43.29	-
Q4 '15	40.37	30.39	43.06	-
Q1 '16	40.64	30.33	43.01	-
Q2 '15	39.47	30.32	42.62	-
Q1 '15	39.2	30.94	42.18	-
Q4 '14*	38.99	31.52	42.13	-
Q3 '14	39.65	31.71	19.65	26.32
Q2 '14	39.34	31.94	19.44	25.85
Q1 '14	39.15	32.31	19.28	25.45
Q4 '13	38.63	32.25	19.4	24.95
Q3 '13	37.94	31.96	19.58	24.8
Q2 '13	37.49	32.24	19.41	24.43
Q3 '12	35.99	35.1	19.11	24
Q1 '13	37.01	32.41	19.33	23.95
Q2 '12	35.47	35.81	18.83	23.5
Q4 '12	36.57	33.89	19.3	23.4
Q1 '12	35.1	36.46	18.6	23.06
Q4 '11	35.4	37.63	18.38	22.72
Q3 '11	34.91	36.83	18.15	22.15
Q2 '11	34.52	36.02	17.75	21.54
Q1 '11	34.57	36.71	17.36	20.98
Q4 '10	34.69	36.68	17.05	20.43
Q3 '10	34.88	35.69	16.63	19.9
Q2 '10	36.98	34.87	16.27	19.59
Q1 '10	38.54	34.54	15.87	19.29
Q4 '09	39.14	34.63	15.51	18.99
Q3 '09	39.33	34.54	15.4	18.71
Q2 '09	39.1	34.92	14.93	18.24
Q1 '09	38.98	35.47	14.51	18.04
Q4 '08	39.1	36.17	14.2	17.78
Q3 '08	38.8	36.19	13.98	17.03
Q2 '08	38.4	35.3	13.58	16.2
Q1 '08	37.11	34.41	13.01	15.4

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Release date

March 2024

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Germany

Survey time period

Q1 2008 to Q4 2023

Supplementary notes

* The source adds the following information: "Merge of Telefónica and E-Plus. Customer numbers will be combined from Q4 2014 onwards."
** The source adds the following information: "The increase for Vodafone is linked to a change in the method of calculating their customer base."
Up until Q1 2016 only direct Vodafone customers were counted.
*** The source adds the following information: "The increase for Telefónica is linked to a change in the method of calculating their customer base."

The number of mobile phone connections is based on the number of SIM cards in circulation (contract, prepaid and M2M).
The decrease of connections in some networks is partly due to the providers booking out inactive SIM cards from time to time and revising the figures accordingly.

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