Report: 83% of New Phone Subscribers in July Chose Glo

Emma Okonji

The latest report by telecommunications industry regulator, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), indicates that more new phone subscribers settled wih Globacom  in the month of July.

According to the report published on NCC’s website, Globacom added 2,103,721 million new customers in July to take its subscriber base to 58,330,200 from 56,226,479 the previous month. This represents 83 per cent of the total number of 2,523,276 new phone users recorded in the country in July.

MTN came second with 392,440 new subscriptions in July, while Airtel was third with 90,955 new customers, followed by 9mobile.  

The report by the commission also revealed that the total number of subscriptions to telecommunication services across the mobile networks of MTN, Glo, Airtel and 9mobile rose to 208.6 million during the period under review. The corresponding figure for June was 206 million. The country’s teledensity, which measures the number of active telephone connections per 100 inhabitants living within an area, also rose from 108.15 per cent in June to 109.47 per cent in July, 2022.

So far this year, the mobile network operators have gained a total of 13.5 million new subscribers, with the number of phone users in the country rising from 195,128,265 at the end of December, 2021, to 208,604,996 at the end of July, 2022. This is a departure from last year when the operators lost close to 20 million subscribers as a result of the ban on new SIM registration, the report said.  

The NCC report shows that Globacom has played a major role in leading this growth. Its remarkable performance in the industry is believed to be a result of the continuous network upgrade and extension of 4G data coverage to more cities across the country.