The internet users and data subscribers
in Nigeria’s telecommunications networks marginally increased to 92 million in
August.
The Nigerian Communications
Commission (NCC) made this known in its Monthly Internet Subscribers Data made
available on its website on Thursday.
According to the commission,
the overall figure showed an increase of 739,975 subscribers in August over the
July figure of over 91 million subscribers.
The statistics showed MTN and
Airtel network providers gained new internet subscribers, while Globacom and
9Mobile lost subscribers during the month under review.
The breakdown by NCC showed
that Airtel was a big gainer with an new subscribers of 576, 856, increasing
the number to 21, 165,124 internet users in August as against 20,588,268
recorded in July.
MTN also had slight increase
of 333,847 of new internet subscribers amounting to 31,863,373 in August as
against 32, 197,220 in July.
However, Globacom had
26,955,276 customers surfing the net on its network in August, showing a
decrease of 43,215 users from the 27,912,061 that surfed the internet on the
network in July, it said.
The data showed that 9mobile
also had a decrease of 213,943 customers to 11,842,298 subscribers in August
down from 12,056,241 users recorded in July.
The Code Division Multiple
Access (CDMA) networks operators such as Multi-Links and Visafone had a total
of 30,309 internet users on their networks in August, maintaining the same
record of July.
Visafone had 30,305 customers
surfing the internet in August, while Multi-Links had only four internet users.
(NAN)
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