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.
(NAN)
