NCC records 64.2m GSM subscribers as at last quarter of 2013

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), on Friday said it had recorded 64, 229, 097 subscribers on its various Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) networks.

This is contained in the Internet Subscriber Data released by the NCC on its Website, as at the last quarter of 2013.

The Data also indicated that an additional 8, 150, 259 subscribers have joined the existing 56, 078, 838 customers in the third quarter, to browse the Internet.

The data, however, showed that

the Mobile Telecommunications Network (MTN) Nigeria led in the usage of the Internet, as 32, 704, 697 of its customers were using the web.

It showed that the MTN Nigeria added 4, 227, 497 Internet users to its third quarter result of an existing 28, 477, 200 subscribers.

Globacom followed suit as it recorded 15, 109, 791 Internet customers as at Dec. 2013, adding 2, 133, 982 to its Internet subscribers of 12, 975, 809 in September 2013.

The data named Airtel Nigeria with 10, 359, 362 Internet consumers as third on the roll, against the 9, 085, 153 customers it had in the third quarter of 2013.

Airtel with the data showed that it increased by 1, 274, 209 subscribers.

Etisalat Nigeria added 514, 571 subscribers to its already existing 5, 540, 676 Internet users in the third quarter, thereby recording 6, 055, 247 users in the fourth quarter of 2013.

The Internet Subscriber Data showed that many GSM subscribers in Nigeria still depended on voice services, although, data usage was envisaged to be the next revolution in the telecommunications arena.

(NAN)