olokfor: A total of 48.3 million telephone subscribers actively browse the Internet on their mobile phones, investigations have shown.

Statistics obtained from the Nigerian Communications Commission on Friday showed that Internet subscriptions through the telecommunications operators increased by 26.44 per cent between May 31 and June 30, 2013.
Active Internet subscription as of the endof June, but it was, however, 16.29 per cent less than the total Internet mobile subscriptions.

At the end of June, a total of 57.7 million telephone subscribers had Internet subscription, although only 48.3 million were active subscribers.
This means that a total of 9.4 million Internet subscriptions were inactive.
At the end of May, the active mobile Internet subscription stood at 38.2 million. This means that within a period of one month (between May and June), 10.1 million active subscribers started using the Internet on their phones, a difference of 26.44 per cent.

The total subscription at the end of May, however, stood at 44.69 million. This translates to an inactive population of 6.49 million subscribers or a ratio of 14.52 per cent.

With an active subscription of 24.5 million, MTN Nigeria Communications Limited had the largest mobile Internet subscription rate at the end of June. This means that 50.72 per cent of all mobile Internet subscribers as of June 30 were hooked to the MTN network.

www.metronaija.com/48-3-million-nigerians-browse-internet-on-mobile-phones/

mc~evans:


You have always been an E-diot! No Doubt.

Airforce1:

Ok

dridowu: I belve ds, most of my browsing is on d phone , even rit now. I used system only when i have to download large files

emmysenior: This should be in the phones section.

However, it's a great news that most people will now have access to infos. But the funny thing is that, most girls and few guys will only facebook, do BBM chat, 2go and will let the remaining bunch/chunk of massive data go with the wind on expiration.

They won't even download novels, read articles, news or better still download songs.

Adamskuty: 3 times the size of ghana

kedukc: I foresee a crash in prices but we know how the folks at ncc behave

torgbe: wat Ghana do you?? Wat have u been able to achieve with ur large population

Yungwizzzy: network providers are really making hell from Nigerians imagine this figure multiplied by their high data rates. and yet one useless organization will sit in the US and report that 90% of Nigerians are poor wurehell. pesin Neva see food chop e go subscribe 4 internet data??

Adamskuty: 2.5 times the size of ghana

adwem2003: More than Tahiti Population

Yungwizzzy: network providers are really making hell from Nigerians imagine this figure multiplied by their high data rates. and yet one useless organization will sit in the US and report that 90% of Nigerians are poor wurehell. pesin Neva see food chop e go subscribe 4 internet data??

greaterlove: And some people want us to believe that 80% of Nigerians live below $1 a day!

9jadelta: phone is more convenient than PC

Tonylyte: na daily bundle....d tin d chop my money no be small...

emmysenior: This should be in the phones section.

However, it's a great news that most people will now have access to infos. But the funny thing is that, most girls and few guys will only facebook, do BBM chat, 2go and will let the remaining bunch/chunk of massive data go with the wind on expiration.

They won't even download novels, read articles, news or better still download songs.

greaterlove: And some people want us to believe that 80% of Nigerians live below $1 a day!

Sery777: where is my post

Donmichaelz: That's why we don't think of commiting suiside as we dey think of suiside Etisalat go just send free 15MB,