Latest figures released by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) showed that Nigeria gained 340,525 new active subscribers in the month of January 2016. The latest figures were contained in the latest edition of NCC’s Monthly Subscriber Data.
Active lines in Nigeria stood at 151,357,769 for the month of January, against the figure of 151,017,244 in December, 2015.
According to the data, 149,022,919 of the 151,357,769 active numbers subscribe to the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network services.
The GSM operators’ active customers increased by 341,557 from the 148,681,362 subscribers they recorded in the month of December.
The Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) operators had 2,147,982 active users in January, indicating a decrease of 745 from the 2,148,727 customers they had in December.