Latest figures released by the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) has revealed the number of mobile internet subscribers in Nigeria has exceeded 86 million. According to the commission, there were 87,055,484 mobile internet users at the end of April, up from 85,467,970 users in March.
The increase of 1,587,514 internet users during the period was on both the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) and the Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) networks.
Globacom had 19,690,526 subscribers surfing the net with its network in April, a significant rise from the 18,617,607 users in March. This shows that the operator gained a total of 1,072,919 additional internet users on its network during the period covered by the report.
This increase translates to 67.58% of the total number of new internet subscriber figure of 1,587,514 for the telecom networks for the month under review.
On the other hand, the NCC data showed that MTN lost 384,487 internet subscribers in April, after it recorded 39,520,285 users, down from 39,904,772 in March 2015. Airtel Nigeria, it said, had 17.2 million internet users in April, as against 16,603,147 customers recorded in March.
