Active mobile phone subscribers increases to over 155m

The latest industry report released by the telecoms regulator has revealed that the total number of active mobile lines on telecoms networks in Nigeria has increased to over 155 million in January, this year.

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in the new report revealed that telecoms networks, mostly the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) operators attracted new 535, 032 subscribers in January.

As of December last year, active subscriptions on GSM, Code Division Multiple Access, fixed line platform and voice over Internet Protocol lines stood at 154,529,780 and teledensity at 110.38 percent.

From this figure, GSM operators including MTN, Globacom, Airtel and others had 154,124,602, while Code-Division Multiple Access (CDMA), fixed networks and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) had 217,566; 154,513 and 33,099 respectively.

Also in the January figure, the development in the industry in terms of mobile subscriptions doesn’t seem to have changed.

According to the NCC report, from the 155,064,812 lines, GSM had 154,660,446 while CDMA network had just 217,566 active phone lines.

Fixed wired/wireless networks recorded 151,088; VoIP subscriptions were 35,712 while teledensity stood at 110.76 percent.