A
total of 49,641,091 phone lines in Nigeria were dormant at Q3 2014, latest
telecoms market information released by the industry regulator has shown.
The
relative dormancy of phone lines is one of the key highlights of the telecoms
numbers showing the gap between the 184,148,420 connected lines and 134,507,329
active lines, the latter representing lines that actually generate revenue for
Nigerian telecoms companies.
The
NCC information also underscores the declining fortune of fixed telephony in
the country as active fixed lines have dropped to just 190,791 by Q3 2013.
The
September 2014 statistics reveals that
1.33 per cent active subscriber growth
was when pitted against August 2014 statistics released by the Nigerian
Communications Commission (NCC).
While
the total number of connected of lines by the end of September 2014 stood at
184,148,420, the number of active lines was 134,507,329, an indication that
49,641,091 lines representing 26.95 per cent of the overall connected lines in
the country were dormant for the period under review.
The
NCC information, according to Technology Times also underscored the declining
fortune of fixed telephony in the country as active fixed lines had dropped to
just 190,791 by Q3 2013.
Also,
the mobile section of the Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) had a total of
1,405,802 inactive lines, while the Fixed Wired/Wireless networks had 172,243
dormant lines.
From
the 134,507,329 active telephone lines on the operators’ networks as at
September 2014, the GSM networks accounted for 131,910,228 active lines,
according to the NCC market information.
Nigeria’s
telecoms industry teledensity climbed to 96.08 per cent in September 2014,
compared to 95.20 per cent in August, this year.
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