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SIM registration: Telcos lose 357,997 subscribers
Nigerian mobile telecommunications users increased by 16.1 million subscribers representing 11.9 percent within a one year period between September 2014 and September 2015.
According to the latest statistics released by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on its website, MTN, Glo, Airtel and Etisalat, who are the major operators, led this growth.
The Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and fixed wired/wireless segments of the sector however, did not contributing anything to the growth, as these two segments continue to experience consistent decline in their subscriptions.
The NCC database figures, also showed that the deactivation of mobile lines as instructed by NCC led to a loss of 357,997 active lines on various mobile networks as at September. From 151,018,624 active telephone lines in August 2015, the number of active telephone lines on mostly GSM operators including MTN, Globacom, Airtel and Etisalat declined to 150,660,631 phone lines in September.
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Also, the teledensity, which is used to determine their number of telephone lines available to 100 people within a given geographical area, plunged from 107.87 per cent in August to 107.61 per cent in September, representing a fall of 0.26 per cent. It varies widely across the nations and also between urban and rural areas within a country.
In 2015, active subscriber consistently increased from 140.8 million in January to 151 million in August. However, the August subscriber data is the first time the operators witnessed decrease in subscriber base, ostensibly because of the SIM deactivation saga.
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