Active lines in the nation’s telecommunications industry rose to 151,018,624 in the month of August, the Nigerian Communications Commission has said.

The commission made this known in its Monthly Subscriber Data made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Wednesday.

NAN reports that active lines in Nigeria were 150,741,005 in the month of July, but increased by 277,619 in August.
According to the data, 148,708,160 of the 151,018,624 active numbers belonged to Global System for Mobile communications network services.

Active lines on the GSM increased by 212,955 in August from 148,495,205 in July.

The Code Division Multiple Access operators had 2,125,941 active users in August, indicating an increase of 68,422 from the 2,057,519 customers they had in July.

The Fixed Wired/Wireless networks’ active consumers increased to 189,523 in August as they added 1,242 customers to the 188,281 users they had in July.

The data revealed that the country’s teledensity increased to 107.87 per cent in August from 107.67 per cent in the month of July.

NAN reports that the teledensity measures the percentage of a country’s population with access to telecommunications services as determined from the subscriber base.

Nigeria’s teledensity is currently calculated by the NCC on a population of 140 million people.
NAN also reports that there was an increase of 0.20 per cent in the teledensity of Nigeria in the month of August.


Source: https://www.today.ng/tech/22554/telecoms-operators-now-have-151m-active-customers-ncc/

NCC should stop giving us the figure of active lines cos we careless about that. Focus on the tariff and see how you can make it friendly.

But me no dey active na.

NIGERIA
A fertile ground for investors.......
A lot of money is to be made in this country.

My neighbour has like a dozen sims and 2 china fones dat carry 3sims each and den an android dat carries 2 sims... Now if there's one of my neighbour in each 100 active users... Recalculate

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Only me get
two mtn
one airtel
one glo
one etisalat

one of my cousin get atleast two mtn,four airtel,glo,etisalat each with 3 double sim phones.....


You know what i mean.

151m active fraud victims

Since data are not affordable,they should expect more active users....different sim for different cheats!

Whizpeter:
Why won't they? When an average Nigerian have at least 2 different mobile lines.... People like me have 4 and above...!

Yhup, Subscribers like me.

a. 2 Dual Sim Android Smartphones = 2 MTN, 1 Etisalat, 1 Glo
b. 1 Dual Sim Nokia Asha 200 = 1 MTN and 1 Airtel Sim
c. 1 Glo Bolt Modem
d. 1 MTN Fastlink Modem

Without stable 3G n no 4G yet

Mtn awoof led to the increase,within that month alone I bought 3 new mtn lines registered them,got 15,500 with 500mb for 600 (30) to call all networks,while I got 30 n 50 respectively to make mtn calls for 7 days.now imagine me in every 100 Nigerians

Confirm Bros. How far.

amAZEing:


Yhup, Subscribers like me.

a. 2 Dual Sim Android Smartphones = 2 MTN, 1 Etisalat, 1 Glo
b. 1 Dual Sim Nokia Asha 200 = 1 MTN and 1 Airtel Sim
c. 1 Glo Bolt Modem
d. 1 MTN Fastlink Modem

No biggie. Man here has like 10 registered sims & r all somewhat active. No thanks to d shitey services provided by same shitheads & blardy regulators.

When an individual could have up to 5 lines.