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Cambodia Telecoms Market Report

Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses

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Publication Date: June 2026

Report Pages: 103

Cambodia’s Digital Government Policy promotes digital inclusion and provides a stimulus for 5G development

Cambodia is striding to modernise its telecom infrastructure to support its digital transformation ambitions. It has in place a policy by which all government services will be accessible online by 2035. This will require progress being made in building out 5G networks and in creating the necessary data centre capacity. The government and regulator have prevaricated on 5G for many years, though more recently announcements suggest that progress is being made to release appropriate and sufficient spectrum and for a licensing policy to be put in place. The urgency to provide commercial 5G services reflects Cambodia’s pressing need to upgrade its telecom infrastructure in light of the strain which increasing mobile data traffic is having on LTE networks.

The government has addressed data centre capacity by investing in a $30 million National Data Centre in the capital, as well as investing in upgrades to the Sihanoukville-Hong Kong cable.

The number of fixed telephony lines in service continues to fall sharply as customers migrate to mobile platforms for both voice and data. The lack of any widespread fixed-line infrastructure has had a flow-on effect in the fixed-line broadband market, a sector that also remains largely under-developed.

One significant area of growth relates to m-payments. There are now more digital accounts than there are people in the country. As testimony to the steady digital transition being made in Cambodia, the number of digital payment transactions increased 78% in 2024 while the value of transactions increased 38%.

Key Developments:

  • Cellcard contracts Nokia to build a 10Gb/s fibre network.
  • Smart Axiata and TrueMoney Cambodia to combine service offerings to improve telecom and financial services across Cambodia.
  • Government-owned Sihanoukville-Hong Kong submarine cable to be lit by end-2025.
  • Cambodia’s digital payment system making gains with a 78% increase in the number of transactions in 2024.
  • Cambodia's Digital Government Policy 2022-2035 promoting digital inclusion and providing a stimulus for economic growth and national development.
  • Report update includes the regulator’s market data to April 2025, telcos’ data to Q2 2025, Telecom Maturity Index charts and analyses, recent market developments.

Companies mentioned in this report include:

Telecom Cambodia, Metfone, Smart Axiata, Viettel, Cellcard, SEATEL, CamGSM, MobiTel, Xinwei, CooTel, Beeline, VEON, Digi, Singmeng Telemedia, Digi, Cambodia Fibre Optic Cable Company

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