Glo increases customers amid decline in total GSM subscribers

Motolani Oseni

Despite a decline in the total Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network services in Nigeria, Globacom (Glo) has increased its customer’s base by 400,879,

claiming the highest number of subscribers for the month of February, latest data by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has revealed.

The commission, in its monthly subscriber/operator data report for the month under review explained that the increase for Glo comes despite a reduction in active subscribers on all the telecommunications networks from 174,012,136 in January to 173,670,035 in February.

According to the data, 173,276,528 of the 173,670,035 active numbers subscribed to the four GSM network services.

Among the other GSM network operators, 9mobile also recorded an increase of 345,264 new customers, while Airtel gained 4,559 new users.

MTN, however, lost 1,099,480 of its subscribers within the one month review period.

A breakdown of the figures showed that Glo had 1,028,985 more subscribers than Airtel in February with 46,004,517 users compared to Airtel’s 44,975,532.

Glo led 9mobile by 29,218,321 subscribers in January, widening the gap further to 29,273,936 in February.

Glo’s customer base grew by 0.87 per cent in February from 45,603,638 subscribers in January, while that of Airtel grew by 0.01 per cent in the same month.

For 9mobile, its subscriber base grew by 2.1 per cent in February to close at 16,730,581 after adding 345, 264 subscribers to the 16,385,317 it had in January.