GSM users increased by 341,557 in Jan, says NCC

The regulatory body said in its monthly subscriber data, which was made available to NAN in Lagos on Sunday, that active lines in Nigeria stood at 151,357,769 for the month of January, against the figure of 151,017,244 in December 2015.

According to the data, 149,022,919 of the 151,357,769 active numbers subscribe to the GSM network services.

The GSM operators’ active customers increased by 341,557 from the 148,681,362 subscribers they recorded in the month of December.

The CDMA operators had 2,147,982 active users in January, indicating a decrease of 745 from the 2,148,727 customers they had in December.

Also, the monthly subscriber data showed that the fixed wired/wireless networks’ consumers decreased to 186,868 in January, as they lost 287 customers to their record of 187,155 in December.

The chart revealed that the teledensity of the country’s telecommunications industry increased to 108.11 per cent in January, from 107.87 per cent in the month of December.

Teledensity statistics measure the percentage of a country’s population with access to telecommunications services as determined from the subscriber base.

Nigeria’s teledensity is currently calculated by the NCC on a population of 140 million people.

There is an increase of 0.24 per cent in the teledensity of Nigeria in January.