MTN Leads as 57.8m Telecoms Subscribers in Nigeria Use Internet Data

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC’s) report shows that MTN Nigeria leads, although only 57,840,299 out of the 121,888,014 million active subscribers on the Global System for Mobile Communications networks used internet data as at October 2013.

The Internet Subscriber Data report as released on NCC web page contained that 64,047,715 subscribers have yet to use data on the Internet as at the period.

Meanwhile, MTN Nigeria took the lead in the usage with a total of 29,347,442 subscribers.

“The company had 28,477,200 Internet users in the third quarter of 2013, and added 870,242 users on its Internet usage in October, 2013.

“Globacom Nigeria took the second place with 13,201,437 of its customers using the facility, against 12,975,809 Internet users recorded in the third quarter of 2013.

“Airtel Nigeria occupied the third position with a total of 9,650,631 Internet users in October, 2013, against the 9,085,153 subscribers using the facility in the third quarter of 2013.”

It stated that Etisalat Nigeria came last with 5,640,789 subscribers using Internet data on its network, as against 5,540,676 customers on the Internet in the third quarter of 2013.

The Internet Subscriber Data showed that many GSM subscribers in Nigeria still fully depended on voice services, although data usage was envisaged to be the next revolution in the Nigerian telecommunications arena.