…Among the big provider, MTN leads with 87,038,768 active subscribers. GLO now has a total of 61,604,576 subscribers. Airtel, in the period recorded a total 61,834,105 active voice subscribers.
FRI, FEB 23 2024-theGBJournal| Telecoms active voice subscribers rose exponentially in Q4 2023 with all the operators adding numbers to their base.
The latest Active Voice and Internet, Porting and Tariff Information published by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), shows that active voice subscribers rose to 224,713,710 in Q4 2023 from 222,571,568 recorded in the corresponding quarter of 2022, a growth of 0.96%. On q-on-q basis, it rose by 1.32%.
Among the big provider, MTN leads with 87,038,768 active subscribers. GLO now has a total of 61,604,576 subscribers. Airtel, in the period recorded a total 61,834,105 active voice subcribers.
In the period under review, active internet subscribers also grew, rising 5.81% to 163,838,439 from 154,847,901 reported in Q4 2022. 70,659,889 are on MTN network while 43,998,101 are on GLO network with another 45,064,857 linked to Airtel.
The NBS data shows that Lagos state had the highest number of active voice subscribers in Q4 2023 with 26, 739,346, followed by Ogun with 13,070,779 and Kano with 12,325,633.
On the other hand, Bayelsa still recorded the least with 1,557,786, followed by Zamfara and Gombe with 2,772,424 and 2,785,030 respectively.
Similarly, Lagos state had the highest number of active internet subscribers in Q4 2023 with 18,927,446, followed by Ogun with 9,570,463 and Kano with 9,031,581.
Likewise, Bayelsa recorded the least active internet subscriber with 1,193,525, followed by Zamfara and Gombe with 1,959,252 and 2,100,073 respectively.
However, MTN maintains its status as the telecommunication service providers with highest share of subscriptions in Q4 2023.
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