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Nigerian Subscribers Spend N602.6 Billion On Calls In Five Months - NCC by Kingspin(m): 7:47am On Sep 10, 2014 |
Telecoms subscribers in Nigeria spent about N602.6 billion on airtime for their phones to make calls in the first five months of the year, spanning January to May, New Telegraph investigations have revealed. The figure is arrived at using the subscriber data released monthly by the telecoms industry regulator, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the current industry’s Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) provided by the operators. figures released by the telecom regulator. It was gathered that each of the monthly subscription represents the total number of active lines on all mobile networks in the country. These include the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) operators; the Code Division Multiple Access operators as well as the fixed wired/ wireless networks. Two telecoms firms, MTN and Etisalat, put the current average spending by subscribers monthly at $6 (N936). Further investigation revealed that subscribers spent estimated N191.5 billion in January with based on the number of subscribers, which stood at 127 million and the ARPU averaging N936. With the same ARPU, subscribers’ spending moved to an estimated N120.7 billion in February; N118.8 billion in March; N121 billion in April and in May, the airtime expenditure was conservatively estimated at N112.7 billion. Subscribers’ expenditure thus adds up to estimated N602.6 billion for the five months, indicating the premium paid to telecoms services by the consumers. Reacting to the findings in a telephone interview, President, National Association of Telecoms Subscribers (NATCOMS), Mr. Deolu Ogunbanjo, said telecoms services were taking priority position in the daily needs of Nigerians. He said: “While I may not be able to tell you categorically how much we spend monthly on phone calls as subscribers, it is understandable that Nigerians spend a sizeable chunk of their incomes on telecoms services, which are replacing travel expenditures for the people.” Ogunbanjo said, next to shelter, food and other needs of man “is the need to communicate, which saves us a lot of time that would have been wasted travelling from one place to another to see relatives or do transactions with business associates.” He stated that the huge amount of money expended daily on telephone services by Nigerians had informed the insistence by the consumer rights group that “subscribers must get value for their money through the provision of quality services by the operators.” However, President, Association of Licensed Telecoms Operators (ALTON), Mr. Gbenga Adebayo, said the expenditure by subscribers had even reduced drastically in the last 13 years of telecoms regulation. “You will recall that, in this country, we have made calls for close to N100 and today, we are witnessing a decrease in ARPU and in fact, today, you can make calls for as low as N10 and also send text messages for as low as N4 he stated. The ARPU is a financial performance benchmark in the telecoms industry that measures the average monthly revenue generated by operators from each customer. According to official industry data by the telecoms watchdog, the industry recorded 127.6 million active mobile subscriptions last January and this figure increased to 129 million at the end of February. the number declined to 127 million but picked up to 129.3 million in April and at the end of May, the figure stood at 131.1 million. The May subscriber data is the latest official promoted by the regulator is driving cost of telecoms services down, stressing that much more reduction is expected in the coming years. Acknowledging how capital-intensive telecoms infrastructure deployment is, the NCC boss had recently said only MTN was making profits in the market. He said other operators were still putting more investment in infrastructure rollout to cover more locations in the country. MTN currently leads other network operators in the area of subscriber base and revenue generation in the country. Official data show that MTN currently has about 57.2 million telephone users on its network. Airtel Nigeria trailed with 25.5 million; Globacom is third with 23.4 million while Etisalat has 18.5 million telephone users on its network. This was as at the end of March when the latest data was released by the regulator. www.newtelegraphonline.com 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Nigerian Subscribers Spend N602.6 Billion On Calls In Five Months - NCC by RockMaxi: 8:21am On Sep 10, 2014 |
The last time I checked, customers are still faithful but Telecom providers and NCC have been screwing them up with unfavourable services. 15 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Nigerian Subscribers Spend N602.6 Billion On Calls In Five Months - NCC by sirjohnson(m): 8:37am On Sep 10, 2014 |
Also note that phone calls damage the brain, so be careful how much time you spend on the phone. Read this little article Here about how phone calls can damage one's brain |
Re: Nigerian Subscribers Spend N602.6 Billion On Calls In Five Months - NCC by mrprestige(m): 8:37am On Sep 10, 2014 |
See money. Well am aint surprise on the statistics, when someone will load 200# for Chioma, 200# for Nkechi and 100# for family members 17 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Nigerian Subscribers Spend N602.6 Billion On Calls In Five Months - NCC by brownlord: 8:38am On Sep 10, 2014 |
Those Nigeria Criminals Commision NCC should shut the fvck up, they are the once conniving with the telecoms coy to exploit Nigeria's, why won't they make trillions with their deferent method of defrauding Nigerians. Mtn send you text message of win million, win billions, with 100 naira per SMS, you answer 100 questions and you are still answering. We would be better without this NCC people. 7 Likes |
Re: Nigerian Subscribers Spend N602.6 Billion On Calls In Five Months - NCC by buzzys(m): 8:38am On Sep 10, 2014 |
We pay too much fir everything. Blamed bad leadership. 1 Like |
Re: Nigerian Subscribers Spend N602.6 Billion On Calls In Five Months - NCC by BlackPeni5: 8:38am On Sep 10, 2014 |
And they say Nigerians are poor? Something is not adding up here. The study should also let us know the percentage of Nigerians which accounted for the bulk figure...Could be a few criminals spending their loot. 6 Likes |
Re: Nigerian Subscribers Spend N602.6 Billion On Calls In Five Months - NCC by Talkcentral: 8:39am On Sep 10, 2014 |
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Re: Nigerian Subscribers Spend N602.6 Billion On Calls In Five Months - NCC by Nobody: 8:39am On Sep 10, 2014 |
But they repay our loyalty with bad services. Though i blame NCC for allowing that. 3 Likes
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Re: Nigerian Subscribers Spend N602.6 Billion On Calls In Five Months - NCC by Nobody: 8:39am On Sep 10, 2014 |
Just for calls? Without even calculating the amount we spend on their slow browsing 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Nigerian Subscribers Spend N602.6 Billion On Calls In Five Months - NCC by tchigofigo(m): 8:39am On Sep 10, 2014 |
gawd!!! dts y i dn't pity them when they suffer any technical hitch dt results in free calls, free data or hacked accounts and codes..esp, mumu emptyhen netwrk..and their jazz too strong, i'v found it difficult to dump'em,.cos if i do.,d figures in d nxt 5 months will be..N500bill nt N602bill.. 3 Likes |
Re: Nigerian Subscribers Spend N602.6 Billion On Calls In Five Months - NCC by adeoladrg(m): 8:40am On Sep 10, 2014 |
Why didn't they release a statement on how much we spend on data in a month? Awon alatenuje! |
Re: Nigerian Subscribers Spend N602.6 Billion On Calls In Five Months - NCC by LaBonito(f): 8:40am On Sep 10, 2014 |
And wats our reward..... we cannot eat figures na. |
Re: Nigerian Subscribers Spend N602.6 Billion On Calls In Five Months - NCC by ayukdaboss(m): 8:40am On Sep 10, 2014 |
The money these people are making illegally should be close to that amount. Sometimes airtime mysteriously disappears from my phone especially MTN. They automatically subscribe useless caller tunes for me which I never activated. M ature T hieves N etwork 4 Likes |
Re: Nigerian Subscribers Spend N602.6 Billion On Calls In Five Months - NCC by Toluchenko(m): 8:40am On Sep 10, 2014 |
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Re: Nigerian Subscribers Spend N602.6 Billion On Calls In Five Months - NCC by TeamclicksAir: 8:40am On Sep 10, 2014 |
Re: Nigerian Subscribers Spend N602.6 Billion On Calls In Five Months - NCC by nollyway(m): 8:40am On Sep 10, 2014 |
Re: Nigerian Subscribers Spend N602.6 Billion On Calls In Five Months - NCC by constance500: 8:41am On Sep 10, 2014 |
What are we going to do now.. Don't make calls again.. Don't subscribe on your phone.. (how will u access nairaland then) These are things u can't do without.. Either u like it or not |
Re: Nigerian Subscribers Spend N602.6 Billion On Calls In Five Months - NCC by born2boink(m): 8:41am On Sep 10, 2014 |
Business call 20 % Girlfriends 70 % Boyfriends 3 % (most are flashing) Family 2 % Friends 4 % Others 1 % 6 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Nigerian Subscribers Spend N602.6 Billion On Calls In Five Months - NCC by constance500: 8:42am On Sep 10, 2014 |
Toluchenko: Hello everyone!! I'm d newest guy on here. Call customer care for more details.. |
Re: Nigerian Subscribers Spend N602.6 Billion On Calls In Five Months - NCC by Nobody: 8:42am On Sep 10, 2014 |
Jeez!! And am one of them |
Re: Nigerian Subscribers Spend N602.6 Billion On Calls In Five Months - NCC by Godsun2013(m): 8:42am On Sep 10, 2014 |
Are we(Flashers) included? Just asking becos i want to increase my flashing. |
Re: Nigerian Subscribers Spend N602.6 Billion On Calls In Five Months - NCC by ERCROSS(m): 8:42am On Sep 10, 2014 |
Hmmmm... All theae gurls needs to start subscribing their fones by demselves.. m done wit sponsorship... |
Re: Nigerian Subscribers Spend N602.6 Billion On Calls In Five Months - NCC by epospiky(m): 8:44am On Sep 10, 2014 |
Man, nigerians are this rich? Happy to be one of them though |
Re: Nigerian Subscribers Spend N602.6 Billion On Calls In Five Months - NCC by AWODCHEMIST(m): 8:45am On Sep 10, 2014 |
Omo this is seven much ooooooo, the telecom company keep making money and Nigerians are calling since 2002..............call tariff need to be reduce men!!!!!! |
Re: Nigerian Subscribers Spend N602.6 Billion On Calls In Five Months - NCC by Okijajuju1(m): 8:45am On Sep 10, 2014 |
And how many of those calls are good quality calls?! Sometimes, people spend 100 Naira on calls that should not have lasted more than 10 Seconds because they are too busy moving around searching for signal and shouting 'Ehn!! Ehn!! Can you hear me?! Is it clear?! I'm sorry I cant hear you please Call me back.. 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Nigerian Subscribers Spend N602.6 Billion On Calls In Five Months - NCC by constance500: 8:45am On Sep 10, 2014 |
ERCROSS: A......... tchigofigo: .. ERCROSS: A......... I see u 1 Like |
Re: Nigerian Subscribers Spend N602.6 Billion On Calls In Five Months - NCC by feyif(f): 8:45am On Sep 10, 2014 |
Jesus Christ! |
Re: Nigerian Subscribers Spend N602.6 Billion On Calls In Five Months - NCC by skimarvel: 8:45am On Sep 10, 2014 |
And the foreign media will say ''All nigerians are living below 1dollar a day''...The truth is until we learn taking our statistics for ourselves,they won't stop lying against us..A poor man won't leave food and buy recharge card would he? 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Nigerian Subscribers Spend N602.6 Billion On Calls In Five Months - NCC by kultimate009: 8:46am On Sep 10, 2014 |
Globacom with more subscribers than Etisalat Joke of the Year.... I probably have about 3 glo users in my contact list out of over 500 contacts.... |
Re: Nigerian Subscribers Spend N602.6 Billion On Calls In Five Months - NCC by rill: 8:46am On Sep 10, 2014 |
Mtcheeew |
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