MTN, Airtel & Etisalat Lose 1.66 million Subscribers except Glo

The system statictis from NCC
shows that there are over
150 million active
telecommunication lines in
Nigeria using the GSM, CDMA
or VOIP networks. And data contributes immensely to the
growth of the networks

From the above sentenceshows that Nigerian Telecom company
lost over 1.66 million subscribers on its Global
System for Mobile
Communications (GSM)
network in March 2017. According to statistics, all GSM
operators witnessed a
decline in its subscriber’s
population except Globacom during the month.Information on active
subscribers line of major
telecom companies in Nigeria
(NCC Report, March 2017)The information showed GSM
operators’ active customers
decreased by 1,662,350 on the 153,661,547 subscribers
recorded in February 2017. MTN loss 60,391,959 users, Airtel loss 34,656,605 subscribers, Etisalat customers dropped by 566,408 in March 2017. In contrary, data from Globacom
showed an increase of 78,372, giving a total of 37,328,827 customers, as against 37,250,455 in
February 2017. Increase in Globacom’s active
customers is due to its
competitive internet data
plans. Hence, a lot of
smartphone users are
switching to the network to take the opportunity of this
low internet data cost. But
now that Globacom has
reduced their data cap by 100%, will they still experience increase or
decrease by the end of April? Ntel on the other hand is waxing stronger… Ntel had 58,590 consumers subscribing
to its products and services in
March 2017 which indicates
an improvement from its
53,586 in February 2017. MTN still has the largest
market share of 39.73%, followed by Glo 24.56%, Airtel 22.80% and Etisalat 12.91%. Information on active
subscribers line of major
telecom companies in Nigeria
(NCC Report, March 2017) Nigeria GSM market
distribution
(NCC Report, March 2017)