National
telecommunications operator, Globacom, has increased its subscriber
base with 2 million new users in Nigeria in September, said to be the...
largest in the country according to latest statistics released by the
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).
In the
report for September, 2019, Globacom added a record 1,945,846 new
subscribers. With the addition, the company’s subscriber base leapt from
47,265,628 in August to 49,211,474, the second largest customer base in
the industry.
Airtel
which had briefly occupied the second position in the industry now has a
subscriber base of 48,909,678 at the end of September, after adding
987,787 new customers, representing 50 per cent of Globacom’s new
addition within the period under review. Its figure at the end of the
preceding month of August was 47,921,891. It is now the third largest
operator in the country.
The NCC
statistics showed that it was only Globacom and Airtel that added new
subscribers to their networks, as MTN and 9mobile recorded a decline in
active subscriptions for the month.
According
to telecom industry sources, Globacom’s record performance in September
was buoyed by improved service delivery following continuous upgrade of
its infrastructure.
Although
MTN remained the largest mobile operator in Nigeria, it lost 379,795
subscribers in the month under review. This brought its total
subscriptions down to 65,328,104 from the 65,707,899 it recorded in
August.
The
fourth mobile operator, 9mobile, lost 268,159 subscribers in September,
going down from 15,602,255 in August to 15,334,096 in September.
According
to the industry regulator, the number of active mobile users in the
country rose from 176.6 million recorded in August to 178.9 million in
September.
With
this, the country’s teledensity, which measures the number of active
telephone connections per 100 inhabitants living within an area, also
increased to 93.8 per cent.
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