Glo leads Q1 with 80% new internet users – NCC report

The 2016 first quarter telecoms industry report has shown that Globacom led in the new internet users by taking 80 per cent of the market share, leaving only 20 per cent for the other telcos. According to the report published on the website of the telecoms industry regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Globacom got […]

The 2016 first quarter telecoms industry report has shown that Globacom led in the new internet users by taking 80 per cent of the market share, leaving only 20 per cent for the other telcos.
According to the report published on the website of the telecoms industry regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Globacom got 1,448,354 fresh data customers in the first three months of 2016 representing 80 per cent of the total number of new internet subscribers acquired by all the telecommunication networks.
In January alone, the company pulled 354,178 new data subscribers, had 248,593 in February and a whopping 845, 583 in March, upping the cumulative figure of Glo data subscribers to 26, 530,420 in the first quarter.
A total figure of 1,820,651 new data customers subscribed to the four major telecoms network in the period under review. While Airtel garnered 319,229 new internet subscribers during this period, Etisalat had 53,068. Airtel and Etisalat’s figures account for the remaining 20 percent of new data subscribers.
MTN suffered a huge loss at the end of the quarter under review. The company began the year with 39,924,737 data customers but ended the quarter with 33,356,595 with a loss of over 6.5million internet subscribers.
Compared to the corresponding period of 2015, Glo had 946,202 new internet customers, MTN recorded 1,286,205, Airtel had 2,331,160 while Etisalat had 3,994,810 new data subscribers.