The Nigeria Communications
Commission has rolled out
first-ever data on the state of
porting activities by telecoms
subscribers on the four Global
System for Mobile
Communication, GSM,
operators indicating that MTN
Nigeria lost more subscribers
than it gained during the first
two months in review.
The data covered first two
months of May and June,
following the launch of the
porting scheme by telecom
regulator on April 22, 2013.
Airtel Nigeria, however, led
other operators such as MTN,
Glo and Etisalat on porting
gains with 44 per cent and 50
per cent of ported numbers in
May and June, 2013
respectively. The data were
confirmed by the Corporate
Affairs Director of NCC, Mr. Tony
Ojobo, yesterday.
In May, Etisalat came second
on gainer’s table by attracting
29 per cent of the total
number of lines that ported to
new networks. This is followed
by Glo with 17 per cent and
MTN came forth with 10 per
cent.
On the share of porting loss,
MTN Nigeria tops with 49 per
cent; Glo, 23 per cent; Etisalat,
17 per cent and Airtel lost the
lowest number of subscribers
to other networks with just 11
per cent.
Also in June, Airtel led the
porting gainer’s table with 50
per cent. This is followed by
Glo with 29 per cent; Etisalat
came third with 12 per cent
while MTN came forth with just
9 per cent.
On loser’s chart for the month
of June, MTN came tops by
losing 47 per cent of the total
number of lines that were
ported. Etisalat was the third
largest loser with 23 per cent;
followed by Glo, 19 per cent
while Airtel Nigeria lost the
lowest number of subscribers
during the month.
At the launch of mobile
number portability scheme on
July 22, 2013, the Executive
Vice Chairman of NCC, Dr.
Eugene Juwah, had stated that
the porting service, which
allows subscribers to move
freely from one network to
another while retaining their
original number, would prove
wider choice for the over 119
million telecoms consumers in
the country.
It is also expected to help in
improving the quality of
service being offered a
telecoms networks as they
scramble to retain existing
subscribers and attracting
more subscribers from
competitors’ networks.
Already, the scheme has
galvanized telecoms firms into
entering into various network
upgrades running into several
billions of naira with a view to
making each of them the
proffered service provider for
telephone users. nationalmirroronline.net/new/mtn-tops-porting-losers-table/

Guess i'm one of the peeps who dumped MTN 4 AIRTEL

Great news,airtel is the most consistent especially their blackberry services & network.....MTN would have to work harder,this is bad press for them

No wonder Airtel is now doing rubbish... Throughout yesterday i was unable to recharge my line, mostly at nights thier network will be fluctuating.
The load is becoming too much,
meanwhile...

MTN is getting stronger with less load

#TeamAirtel

Please, continue porting to other networks, guys, so that MTN's 3G downloading speed will improve. It's already faster than before...

Less people, more speed...just the way I like it.

Its really cool if airtel can give 1500 for 4gig to browse on diff. devices

the only beef I have with mtn is d stopage of android BIS romance

Why won't they top the losers table,a lot of MTN Subscribers aren't happy with some of their services especially the data plans.

Yungwizzzy: the only beef I have with mtn is d stopage of android BIS romance

With droidvpn, you can use the MTN BIS on your Android phone.