A report recently released by the Nigerian Communication Commission,NCC shows that Nigeria’s active subscribers for internet data services have increased by 140,225,598 million in August 2021, compared with 139,744,180 million in July 2021.
The industry statistics report by the commission showed that mobile (GSM) internet subscribers gained 481,418 new active internet subscribers, an increase to 139,870,047 million of the month under review, from 139,384,180million in July 2021.
According to the report, fixed wired internet service provider lost 105 existing internet subscribers, and voice over internet protocol (VoIP) let go of 4,344 its internet subscribers in August 2021.
The commission reported that Nigeria’s telephone subscribers increased by 1,525,020 million in the month of August 2021, an increase to 189,330,257million from 187,805,237, of the month under review. Teledensity increased to 99.18% in August, from 98.39% in July 2021.
Teledensity is defined as the number of active telephone connections per one hundred (100) inhabitants living within an area and is expressed as a percentage figure.
On market shares of the number of active subscribers for telephony services on each of the licensed service providers utilizing different technologies in August 2021, MTN control 38.70% of mobile market share, with a total of 73,133,330 active telephone subscribers, Globacom has 27.50% and 51,983,266 subscribers, Airtel has 26.91% share with 50,860,024 and 9mobile settled with 6.89% and 13,021,179 active telephone subscribers.
Source:Worldstage
