Active mobile telephone subscription in Nigeria is 189 million as at August 2021.
According to the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the breakdown of the statistics indicates that active mobile subscriptions across the networks of MTN, GLobacom, Airtel, and 9mobile increased by 1.5 million in August compared by 187.5 million recorded in July.
August recorded the highest firgures in the last five months when the mobile network operators recorded 192,413,613 in March this year.
According to the NCC’s data, MTN, which is the largest operator by subscriber number, gained 9,598 new subscriptions in the month.
This brought its total active customer database to 73.1 million. Globacom added 845,467 new subscriptions in August to retain its position as the second-largest operator. The telco’s active customer database rose to 51.9 million at the end of the month.
Airtel also activated a total of 558,787 new lines in the month under review to record 50.8 million total subscriptions.
9mobile gained 113,087 new subscriptions. This pushed up the telco’s total subscriptions to 13.02 million from the 12.9 million it recorded in the previous month.
