Nigeria’s telecommunications continue steady rise as the active lines in the nation stood at 146,561,744 in May, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has disclosed.
The commission made this known in its monthly Subscriber Data released on Sunday, July 12. According to the data, 144,386,841 of the 146,561,744 active numbers subscribe to the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network services, while 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.
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.
