NCC declares Glo largest network in new data subscription

The latest figures released by the industry regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has revealed that Globacom has widened the gap between it and the other operators  in the country  in the area of new data subscriber acquisition. A scrutiny of the latest figures released by NCC showed that it was only Globacom that recorded […]

The latest figures released by the industry regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has revealed that Globacom has widened the gap between it and the other operators  in the country  in the area of new data subscriber acquisition.
A scrutiny of the latest figures released by NCC showed that it was only Globacom that recorded an increase in its internet subscriber base in the last quarter of 2015. The network had 23,285,454 internet users in October, 24,952,559 in November and 25,082,066 in December, which is an addition of 3.2m new internet subscribers in the quarter.
Conversely, MTN, Airtel and Etisalat all lost data subscribers within the period. MTN which had a total of 41,835,294 internet subscribers at the beginning of October 2015 had 39,924,737 data subscribers at the end of December, a loss of almost 2million customers.
In the same vein, Airtel which began the quarter with 17,730,955 internet customers ended with 16,835,952, a loss of nearly 900,000 subscribers.
Etisalat on its part lost 408,282 internet customers, having begun the quarter with 15,598,070 data and ended it with 15,189,788.
This is coming a few weeks after the company emerged the leader in internet subscriber acquisition in the third quarter of last year. In that previous report on the website of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the regulator indicated that Globacom gained the highest number of internet users in September of 2015 with over a million new internet users on its network, up from 20,765,379 data users in August to 21,896,229 data users the following month.
According to the NCC data, Globacom added 1,130,850 new internet subscribers which were much more than the total number of new internet users who joined the three other major telecom operators.