In July, there were 208.6 million active subscriptions for telecommunications services across MTN, Airtel, Glo, and 9mobile’s mobile networks. This is according to the Nigerian Communications Commission’s most recent industry data (NCC).
According to the data, Glo was the driving force behind the increase, recording the highest gain of 2.1 million subscriptions in the month. In total, the four GSM operators increased subscriptions by 2.5 million in July, while the country’s active mobile subscription database stood at 206 million in June.
With the operator growth, the country’s teledensity, which measures the number of active telephone connections per 100 people living in a given area, increased from 108.15% in June to 109.47% in July 2022.
So far this year, mobile network operators have added 13.5 million new subscribers, a significant increase from last year, when they lost nearly 20 million as a result of the government’s ban on new SIM registration between December 2020 and April 2021. Active subscriptions across the four networks totaled 195.1 million as of December 2021.
