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
