Nigeria Active Phone Lines figure grow by 1,085,418 to hits 146 Million says NCC

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From Benjamin A Ameh, Lagos

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) said the active lines in the nation’s telecommunications industry stood at 146,561,744 in May.

According to the commission in its statement released over the weekend (Sunday) as against its monthly Subscriber Data.

Active lines in Nigeria were 145,476,326 for the month of April. The figure increased by 1,085,418 in May.

According to the statement, 144,386,841 of the 146,561,744 active numbers subscribe to the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network services.

The GSM operators increased their active customers by 1,329,607 as against the 143,057,234 subscribers they recorded in April.

The Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) operators had 1,993,278 active users in May, indicating a decline of 241,024 from the 2,234,302 customers they had in April.

However, the monthly subscriber data showed the Fixed Wired/Wireless networks’ consumers reduced to 181,625 in May after losing the 3,165 customers they recorded from the 184,790 data for April.

The report revealed that the tele-density of the country’s telecommunications industry increased to 104.69 per cent in May from 103.91 per cent in the month of April.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that the tele-density statistics measure the percentage of a country’s population with access to telecommunications services, as determined from the subscriber base.

The above statement disclosed that the NCC calculated tele-density for Nigeria based on a population of 140 million people.

The tele-density data was not left out grow as it grew by 0.78 per cent in May.

 


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