Airtel Nigeria is now the
second-largest telecommunications service provider in the country.
According to the July subscriber
data released by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Airtel gained a
total of 906,400 customers in July to become second.
Airtel currently has 123,327
subscribers more than Globacom that has occupied the position for years.
In total, there are now
174,668,626 active GSM lines in the country.
In the month under review, MTN
gained 1,379 new subscribers with another 118,442 subscribers from Visafone, a
CDMA network it acquired.
Globacom gained 118,087 new
subscribers to reach a total of 46,713,068 GSM users while 9mobile was the only
operator that lost subscribers.
It lost 225,283 subscribers,
dropping to 15,739,967 mobile users.
In terms of market share, MTN
retains the largest share of the market at 37.43% with Airtel at 26.81%.
Globacom holds 26.74% share of
the market while 9mobile holds 9.01%.
The total number of subscribers
on the two Voice over Internet Protocol networks (VoIP) increased from 165,333
users in June to 172,111 active users in July.
Smile Communications network
added 6,543 users to stand at 167,555 customers while Ntel added 235 users to
stand at 4,556 subscribers.
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