The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has reported that Nigeria’s active subscriptions for telecommunications services across the four major mobile networks increases to 218.6 million in November 2022.
The latest industry data released by the industry regulator indicated that the increase was largely driven by MTN, which recorded the highest gain of 3.1 million subscriptions in the month under review.
According to the commission, the four GSM operators, namely MTN, Airtel, Glo, and 9mobile recorded a combined 4.2 million increase in subscriptions in November just as the country’s active mobile subscription database stood at 214.3 million in October.
Based on the positive trend, the commission reported the country’s teledensity, which measures the number of active telephone connections per 100 inhabitants living within an area, also increased from 112.47% in October to 114.07% in November 2022.
The NCC’s statistical data further reflected that MTN, which is the largest operator by subscriber number, gained 3.1 million new subscriptions in the month under review, thereby increasing the telco’s total active customer database to 86.4 million from the 83.2 million it recorded in October.
A further analysis of the data indicated that Airtel added 713,865 new subscriptions in the month under review. The telco’s active customer database rose to 59.3 million at the end of November from 58.6 million in October.
Also, Glo also recorded a 312,274 increase in subscriptions in the month to maintain its position as the second-largest operator. The new activations on the network brought Glo’s total subscriptions to 59.9 million from the 59.6 million it recorded in October.
The report further showed that in the month under review, 9mobile gained new subscriptions for the first time in several months with its subscriptions database increasing by 69,812 to 12.8 in the month under review.
