- The Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) yesterday said the active lines in the nation’s telecommunications industry stood at 146,561,744 in May.
- The commission spoke in its Monthly Subscriber Data.
- Active lines in Nigeria were 145,476,326 for April and increased by 1,085,418 in May, the NCC said.
- According to the data, 144,386,841 of the 146,561,744 active numbers subscribe to the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network services.
- The GSM operators increased their active customers by 1,329,607 as against the 143,057,234 subscribers in April.
- The Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) operators had 1,993,278 active users in May, showing a decline of 241,024 from the 2,234,302 customers in April.
- Also, the monthly subscriber data showed that the Fixed Wired/Wireless networks’ consumers reduced to 181,625 in May, after losing the 3,165 customers recorded from the 184,790 data for April.
- The chart showed that the tele-density of the country’s telecommunications industry increased to 104.69 per cent in May, from 103.91 per cent in April.
- Source: NAN