By Emma Okonji
Telecoms subscribers’ number across all networks rose to 169.1 million
in November 2018, up from 165.2 million as at October same year.
The rise in the figure of subscribers’
number, which was released yesterday by the Nigerian Communications
Commission (NCC), also showed an increase in teledensity from 118.03 per
cent in October this year, to 120.79 per cent in November same year.
Teledensity is the number of active
telephone connections per one hundred inhabitants living within an area
and is expressed as a percentage figure. The NCC’s statistics showed
that Globacom recorded a total of 1,691,133 new subscribers in November,
thus emerging as the most preferred network for new telephone users
that month.
According to NCC, in its monthly report,
Globacom with 26 per cent of the nation’s subscribers on its network,
moved from 41,582,055 subscribers in October to 43,273,188 subscribers
in November 2018.
The report further stated that Globacom
picked 1,691,133 customers in November, 2018, while 1,323,282 joined MTN
and Airtel recorded 849,173 new customers. However, 9mobile did not add
any new subscriber during the period.
With these increases, the total number
of active subscribers in the country recorded a growth of 3.86 million
telephone users, rising from 165,239,443 recorded in October to
169,104,830 in November 2018.
Industry sources attributed the massive
increase in Globacom’s subscriber base to the recent network
modernisation and optimisation carried out by the company, leading to
improved service quality levels across all categories of its services.
In addition, the company’s new product
and services including the subscriber’s favourite, Oga SIM, which offers
125 per cent data bonuses to all new data customers, and Glo Yakata,
which rewards customers with amazing data and voice benefits every time
they recharge their Glo lines, are believed to have contributed
significantly in attracting new customers to the network.
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