Internet subscribers hits 90m in March
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said that the number of internet subscribers stood at 90,003,101 in March 2017.
The telecommunications regulator disclosed this in its Monthly Internet Subscribers Data Report for March on Monday in Lagos.
The data shows that internet users dropped from 90,029,182 in February to 90,003,101 in March on both the Global System for Mobile Communications (GMS) and Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA).
It further shows that out of the 90,003,101 internet users in March, 89,972,792 were on GSM networks, while 30,309 users were on CDMA networks.
Also, the GSM service providers lost 26,081 internet customers after recording 89,972,792 users in March, as against 89,998,873 it recorded in February.
The CDMA operators had retained 30,309 internet subscribers in March as recorded in February 2017.
The data report revealed that MTN had 30,519,351 subscribers browsing the internet on its network in the month under review.
It said that MTN recorded an increase of 218,646 internet subscribers in March, after recording 30,300,705 in February.
According to the data report, Globacom had 27,021,200 customers surfing the net on its network in March, revealing an increase of 88,715 users, from the 26,932,485 that surfed the internet on its network in February.
Airtel had 19,468 internet users in February showing a reduction of 44,924 customers from 19,423,760 recorded in March.
The data report also showed that Etisalat had 13,008,481 customers who browsed the internet in March, revealing a decrease of 288,518 users from the 13,296,999 users recorded in February.
The NCC data report also revealed that the CDMA operators, Multi-Links and Visafone had a joint total of 30,309 internet users on their networks in March, maintaining the same record of February.
The data report shows that Visafone had 30,305 customers surfing the internet in March, while Multi-Links had just four internet users.
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