Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has revealed the latest monthly report on the number of subscribers to Nigeria’s mobile telecommunications services, and this report showed the figure rose to 187.15 million in February,
This presents an eight percent year-on-year growth in subscribers since the industry had 173.28 million users in February 2019.
Also, the NCC statistics revealed that Internet users grew by 15 percent from 114,725,357 in February 2019 to 131,647,895 in February this year.
Obtainable from the industry statistics is equally the fact that the telcos gained 1.4 million new subscribers in one month as the industry had recorded 185.74 million GSM users in January.
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The data revealed MTN gained the highest number of subscribers in the period under review, adding 1.78 million subscribers to its network to reach 72.47 million customers.
However, the company lost 1,058 GSM users on its Visafone spectrum to reach 137,086 subscribers in February.
Airtel added 490,389 new customers to reach 50.49 million users while Globacom gained 48,798 new subscribers in February, recording a total of 51.8 million GSM users.
9mobile was the only operator that lost subscribers in February as 913,733 GSM users left its network, dropping to 12.24 million mobile phone users.
NCC February report indicated that MTN remained Nigeria’s largest mobile network operator with 38.73 percent market share and Globacom is still the country’s second-largest operator at 27.68 percent.
Airtel clinched the third spot at 26.98 percent while 9mobile remained the fourth operator at 6.54 percent market share.
The NCC mobile Internet subscriber’s data showed that Globacom, which had 29.21 million Internet subscribers in January, gained the highest number of users – 1.75 million – to record a total of 30.95 million users in February.
MTN’s mobile Internet subscriber base increased to 56.49 million in February from 55.53 million in June, adding 960,814 new users to its network.
On the Visafone spectrum owned by MTN, 1,378 Internet users were lost, bringing the number down to 88,818 Internet users.
Airtel had 35.5 million Internet subscribers in January but recorded 36.17 million users by the end of February, thereby gaining 670,474 new users.
On the other hand, the data showed that 9mobile’s Internet subscribers declined from 8.04 million in January to 7.94 million in February, losing 96,220 mobile Internet users in one month.
