Airtel Nigeria tops chat as telecoms subscribers hit 153m
Airtel Nigeria topped the chat of new subscribers for the month of September with 400,847 new subscriptions. Globacom came a distant second with 215,700 new subscribers for the month under review.
MTN was next with 60,558,569 and Etisalat recorded 64,870 new subscribers. The figure is according to a subscriber/operator data by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) which also showed that telecommunication subscribers in Nigeria had hit 153.2 million.
It said that the active telecommunications service customers increased by 495,426 in September as against the figure in August which stood at 152,776,155. According to the data, 152,836,997 of the 153,271,581 active numbers subscribed to the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network services.
The GSM operators’ active customers increased by 551,677 from 152,285,320 subscribers recorded in August. The reports stated that of the GSM operators, MTN had 60,558,569 users in September, which was the same figure recorded in August.
Globacom subscribers increased in September by 215,700, bringing the total to 36,967,712 customers as against 36,752,012 in August. Airtel had 32,775,916 subscribers in the month under review, adding 400,847 users to the August record of 32,375,069.
Etisalat, however, recorded a reduction in customers by 64,870, giving a customer base of 22,534,800 as against 22,599,670 users in August.
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