The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, says the
number of internet users on the Global System for Mobile
communications (GSM) networks has increased from
76,322, 802 in 2014 to 81,892,840 in January 2015.
This is contained in the NCC Monthly Internet Subscriber
Data, obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday
in Lagos.
According to the data, there is an increase of 5,570,038
internet users on the networks in January.
It showed that from the 81,892,840 internet users recorded
in January, MTN Nigeria led the table with 39,173,123
customers browsing the internet on its network.
It stated that MTN had an increase of 556,386 internet
subscribers in January, after it recorded 38,616,737 users
in the month of December 2014.
According to the data, Globacom is second on the internet
usage table, recording 17,671,405 subscribers surfing the
net with its network in January.
The data revealed that Globacom gained a total of 532,085
additional internet users on its network, up from 17,139,320
users in December 2014.
Airtel Nigeria, it said was third on the roll with 14,969,924
internet users in January, as against 14,371,987 customers
recorded in December.
The data showed that internet users on the Airtel Nigeria
network also increased by 597,937 in January.
It disclosed that Etisalat was last on the table with
10,078,388 of its customers browsing the internet in
January, compared to the 6,194,758 users in December, an
increase of 3,883,630 users.
The NCC data also revealed that the Code Division Multiple
Access (CDMA) operators (Multi-Links and Visafone) had a
joint total of 153,798 internet users on their networks in
January.
It showed, however, that the only surviving two CDMA
networks in the country listed a loss of 526 internet
subscribers in the month under review from the 154,324
users they recorded in December.
The data stated that Visafone recorded a decrease of 311
customers surfing the internet in January, reducing the
number to 153,059 compared to the 153,370 users in the
month of December.
It said that Multi-Links had 739 internet users in January,
hence losing 215 customers from the December record of
954 users.
The data further showed that in spite of the decrease on the
part of the CDMA networks, Nigerians were gradually
embracing data as the next revolution in the Information
and Communications Technology sector.
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