MTN Nigeria and Airtel outperformed Globacom and 9mobile in the first five months of 2022, as the telecommunications industry recorded a 4.76 million increase in the number of active data subscribers.
The number of active subscribers for internet services rose 3.08 per cent, according to an analysis of NCC data by Prime Business Africa, to 159.03 million at the end of May 2023, up from the 154.27 million data subscribers the industry closed with last year.
MTN Nigeria accounted for 49.38 per cent of the total data subscribers recorded by the industry between January to May.
Airtel followed MTN Nigeria closely, accounting for 43.61 per cent of the total number of subscribers gained by the industry in the review period.
Globacom didn’t perform so well compared to MTN Nigeria and Airtel, as its share in the total number of data users that subscribed to the industry is 13.67 per cent.
9mobile was the worst-performing network provider in the review period, as 317,978 data subscribers stopped using the company’s internet services.
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