The National Telecommunications Authority (INT) has just published its key post-launch indicators for 5G, as of July 2026.
The document highlights two major developments:
1- the rapid growth of fixed wireless access, or FWA, after the 5G launch,
2- the shifting share of the mobile data market value toward high-volume plans.
What is FWA?
FWA, for fixed wireless access, designates fixed internet access provided by the mobile network rather than a copper or fiber line.
The modem or router is not connected to a telephone line or a fiber; it receives data via radio link from the operator’s network.
FWA can be installed more quickly than a wired link when coverage and network capacity are available, since it generally avoids pulling a new line to the premises.
From 9,425 to nearly 370,000 FWA subscriptions
The growth is most spectacular in FWA.
At the 5G launch in February 2025, the fleet stood at 9,425 subscriptions. It reached 91,414 subscriptions in July 2025, then 369,984 in July 2026. The fleet has thus been multiplied by a little over four in one year and by more than 39 since February 2025. The INT estimates about 278,600 additional subscriptions over twelve months.
Fleet, subscriptions, subscribers: beware of confusion
INT measures a fleet of subscriptions, not a number of people. The same customer can hold multiple subscriptions, while a single connection can be used by several members of a household or a business. The 369,984 subscriptions recorded therefore do not directly indicate how many people use FWA.
FWA subscription fleet
July 2025 – July 2026
| 07/25 | 10/25 | 01/26 | 04/26 | 07/26 |
Source : INT, Key post-launch KPIs for 5G, July 2026. The 13 bars represent the 13 monthly observations; five date markers are displayed to facilitate reading.
Monthly growth remains robust, even though its percentage pace is now lower than at the start of the expansion phase. After +19% in August 2025, +25% in September and +19% in October, the growth still reached +14% in January 2026. Since February, it has ranged between +6% and +9%, with +6% in July.
This slowdown in the growth rate does not automatically mean that gains in the number of subscriptions are decreasing. The +6% in July 2026 corresponds to about 21,500 additional subscriptions, compared with about 17,100 for the +19% recorded in August 2025. These differences are calculated by the editorial team from the levels published by the INT.
Why a lower percentage can represent more subscriptions
A growth rate is calculated on a given base. Adding 19% to around 91,000 subscriptions represents nearly 17,000 additional subscriptions. Adding 6% to around 348,000 represents more than 21,000. The percentage is lower, while the base has become almost four times larger.
Result: a relative 6% growth today can represent more additional subscriptions than a 19% rise a year earlier.
363 GB consumed on average each month
The average monthly fixed data consumption per FWA subscription stands at 363 GB as of July 2026, compared with 360 GB in July 2025, i.e., a growth of only 0.8% over one year.
Over the period, monthly consumption typically ranges between 338 and 376 GB. February 2026 shows a lower level, at 311 GB, but that month has only 28 days. When scaled to a daily average, the difference is much less dramatic: about 11.6 GB per day in January, 11.1 GB in February and 11.7 GB in March.
363 GB, what does it represent?
It is a large volume of data, capable of supporting many uses such as streaming video, downloads, video conferencing or software updates.
This average, however, does not reveal the number of users per subscription, nor precisely determine the uses that constitute this consumption.
The relative stability of the average consumption indicates that the growth in the aggregated FWA data volume is mainly explained by the expansion of the fleet rather than by an increase in the average consumption per subscription.
By multiplying the number of subscriptions by the average consumption, the corresponding monthly volume rises from about 32.9 million GB in July 2025 to 134.3 million GB in July 2026, i.e., a volume about 4.1 times higher.
This calculation is the editorial team’s, based on INT data, and does not constitute a KPI directly published by the INT.
Fewer data activations from July to July
The second takeaway of the report concerns mobile data.
The number of activations declines from one July to the next: 38.3 million in July 2024, 36.7 million in July 2025 and 31.7 million in July 2026. INT notes a drop of 17% compared with 2024 and links it to a migration of usage toward higher-volume plans.
What is a “data activation”?
A data activation here refers to the activation of a mobile data offer or plan. It does not correspond to a single customer: the same user can perform multiple activations over a given period.
Thus, a decrease in activations does not, by itself, mean that mobile internet consumption is falling.
Revenues advanced mainly between 2024 and 2025
Revenues from mobile data activations follow a different trajectory: 92.2 million dinars in July 2024, 108.6 million in July 2025 and 109.9 million in July 2026.
Most of the increase thus occurred between 2024 and 2025, with a rise of nearly 17.8%. Between July 2025 and July 2026, revenues grow by only 1.2%, while the number of activations falls by about 13.6%.
The uptick in revenues that compensated the fall in activations has therefore clearly faded in the most recent period.
Revenues and mobile data activations
Index, base 100 in July 2024
July 2024
Revenues: 100
Activations: 100
July 2025
Revenues: 117.8
Activations: 95.8
July 2026
Revenues: 119.2
Activations: 82.8
Source : INT. Indices calculated by the editorial team from published levels: 38.3 / 36.7 / 31.7 million activations and 92.2 / 108.6 / 109.9 million dinars of revenue.
6% of activations generate more than half of revenues
This is probably the most telling figure about the market’s structural shift. INT distinguishes activations below 25 GB from those at or above this threshold.
In July 2026, offers under 25 GB account for 29.8 million activations and 52.2 million dinars of revenue. The offers of 25 GB and above account for 1.9 million activations and 57.7 million dinars of revenue.
Activations of 25 GB and above thus weigh about 6% of the total, but generate about 52.5% of mobile data activation revenues.
Activations of 25 GO and above
July 2026
Share of activations
6 %
Share of revenues from data activations
52.5 %
Source : INT. Shares calculated by the editorial team: 1.9 million out of 31.7 million activations and 57.7 million out of 109.9 million dinars of revenue.
Two years earlier, the same segment represented 28.3 million dinars on 92.2 million, i.e., about 30.7% of the total.
The bulk of the shift, however, occurred between 2024 and 2025: revenues from the 25 GB and above segment rose from 28.3 to 55.2 million dinars, then to 57.7 million in 2026.
Compared to the number of activations published by the INT, the big-pack segment generates around 30 dinars per activation, versus less than two dinars for offers under 25 GB.
This scale should be treated with caution, as categories may differ in duration, content and price. It mainly illustrates the economic weight now held by high-volume offers in data activation revenues.
The combined turnover of the three operators reaches 341.3 million dinars in July
INT finally publishes the cumulative turnover of the three operators, including their internet access provision activity: 293.8 million dinars in July 2023, 309.2 million in July 2024, 321.1 million in July 2025 and 341.3 million in July 2026.
The Institute highlights an increase of 20.2 million dinars over one year and of 16.2% over three years. Between July 2025 and July 2026, the nominal growth reaches about 6.3%.
These amounts are expressed in current value: the INT report does not adjust them for price changes.
Current value, constant value
A current-value amount is expressed in the dinars of the year concerned, without adjusting for general price changes. To assess the evolution of turnover in real terms — i.e., constant value — one must account for price changes using a suitable index for the studied scope.
General consumer price inflation can provide a reference point, but it is not necessarily the sector-specific deflator for telecommunications. The INT report here presents amounts in current value.
Be careful not to attribute all market evolution to 5G
The document is presented as a report on key post-launch indicators for 5G. The FWA indicators — fleet of subscriptions and average consumption — are directly integrated into this monitoring.
By contrast, mobile data activations, their revenues and overall operator turnover cover a much wider scope. These evolutions cannot therefore be attributed to 5G alone.
The report notes that they occur in the period following its launch, but it does not establish a causal link.
INT also notes that the data published to it are provided by market participants and may be revised, while revenues remain provisional until validated by the auditors.
