East Kalimantan Village Residents Have the Highest National Mobile Phone Ownership Rate
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Based on data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), 70.72% of the rural population in East Kalimantan owned a mobile phone in 2020. This percentage was the highest compared to other provinces in Indonesia.
Next were North Kalimantan and Riau Islands with percentages of 67.35% and 64.44%, respectively. Nationally, the average mobile phone ownership among village residents reached 55%.
Quoting the BPS report titled *Indonesia Telecommunication Statistics 2019*, the average annual increase in the percentage of the population owning/mastering mobile phones was 2.83%. The increase in rural areas reached 3.1%, higher than in urban areas at 2.34%. This indicates the strong penetration of mobile phones even into remote rural areas.
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