Digital divide: 51% rural women don’t own a mobile phone, shows NSO data

Nearly half of the women living in rural areas do not own a mobile phone, according to the latest Comprehensive Modular Survey: Telecom, 2025 (CMS -T) released by the National Statistics Office (NSO) on Thursday.

Data showed that 51.6 per cent of women belonging to the ‘15 years and above age group’ in rural areas don’t own a mobile phone, while 80.7 per cent of men own one.