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Nigeria’s tele-density on the increase
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said that the number of people who have access to telecommunications services in the country increased to 146,561,744 in May, 2015, up from about 145,476,326 for the month of April, representing an increase of 1,085,418 within a month.
NCC’s monthly Subscriber Data obtained on Sunday showed that 144,386,841 of the 146,561,744 active numbers subscribe to the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network services.
The GSM operators increased their active customers by 1,329,607 as against the 143,057,234 subscribers they recorded in April.
The Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) operators had 1,993,278 active users in May, indicating a decline of 241,024 from the 2,234,302 customers they had in April.
Also, the monthly subscriber data showed that the Fixed Wired/Wireless networks’ consumers reduced to 181,625 in May after losing the 3,165 customers they recorded from the 184,790 data for April.
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The chart revealed that the tele-density of the country’s telecommunications industry increased to 104.69 per cent in May from 103.91 per cent in the month of April.
The tele-density statistics measure the percentage of a country’s population with access to telecommunications services, as determined from the subscriber base.
Nigeria’s tele-density is currently calculated by the NCC on a population of 140 million people.
It was also gathered that there was an increase of 0.78 per cent in the tele-density of Nigeria in May.
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