The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says inactive phone lines in the Nigeria, have increased from 65,186,763 in May to 67,331,498 in June 2016.

This shows that of the 217,150,404 connected lines in the country, only 149,818,906 numbers were active. This represents a 70% activity rate in the telecoms industry.

Of the lot, GSM operators had 63,934,119 inactives, while CDMA operators had 3,210,489 inactive phone lines and the Fixed Wired/Wireless networks had 182,662 inactive phone lines.

Nigeria’s teledensity, a measure of the percentage of a country’s population with access to telecommunications services as determined by the subscriber base, climbed up to 107.01 per cent in June, compared to 106.32 per cent in May 2016.

It said the teledensity measured the percentage of a country’s population with access to telecommunications services as determined by the subscriber base.

“Nigeria’s teledensity is currently calculated by the NCC on a population of 140 million people.
“The data showed that some subscribers purchased SIM cards, but dumped them after using them for some time,’’ the report said.

Read more here ---> http://cuulgeek.com.ng/nigeria-67-million-inactive-phone-lines/

including my etisalat

I have 4 mtn, 1 airtel and my etisalat are up to 12 all inactive.

Collinz2:
I have 4 mtn, 1 airtel and my etisalat are up to 12 all inactive.

Bros, you wicked oh.

tempem:
Bros, you wicked oh.

lol

Those inactive sims are for cheats only.
Let one mtn cheat or etisalat cheat comot, people go dust their sims

augster:
Those inactive sims are for cheats only.

Let one mtn cheat or etisalat cheat comot, people go dust their sims

u are right bro

Collinz2:
u are right bro

I guess they should be a new semi-active status for those kinda sims

cheat awaiting sim is what they should call it... ; D
I get dem full house

YOUNGSTUNNA:
cheat awaiting sim is what they should call it... ; D
I get dem full house

I like that too

cuulgeek:


I like that too

go and subscribe...abi you no wan make dem pay their staffs

Meanwhile, Nairaland has 2.9 million useless topics

Toluwani113:

...hahaha... See as u just damage my back.. Person no fit follow play again.....

Nigeria my kwontry

lol... I can only go for Sim swap/retrieval for my main line. But others , if them lost or get damage nah to get another one asap.


*Off-topic: Have you seen the latest infinix hot 4... too hot that you must get one
http://www.obagoblog.com/2016/08/infinix-hot-4-specs-pros-cons-price.html

Why e no go be so

When one person go get 10 lines with sim card 100 naira

augster:
Those inactive sims are for cheats only.
Let one mtn cheat or etisalat cheat comot, people go dust their sims

[quote author=augster post=48704923] not just for cheats, some peeps also use those sims to open spam gmail accounts

Wen cheats kip on emergin why wont i be changing sim

I contributed to this, 12 unused sim cards.

O yes the bad economy has pauperised them as they can no longer affoed to buy credit thereby rendering the devices only good for flashing and receiving calls.

Na wa o!

You can't even go out one day without seeing one fine girl that wants to sell a simple to you..even if you already have that particular network.

how can this news save buhari from being a dog? ehn!

How is this Nigeria problem,Nigeria should just shut down like windows

Chai..

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My MTN line dey there too. MTN wahala was too much for me, so I instead pull out the sim card.

But 80% of those inactive line dey access Internet once there's cheat because presently have 7 inactive mtn lines,4 inactive Etisalat lines, 6 inactive airtel lines. But presently, one of my glo line is active.