Ozioma Ubabukoh
The 2016 first quarter telecoms industry
report has shown that MTN Nigeria lost 6.5
million Internet subscribers between the
months of January and March.
From a report published on the website of
the Nigerian Communications Commission,
the company began the year with
39,924,737 data customers, “but ended the
quarter with 33,356,595.”
It showed that another telco, Globacom,
garnered 1,448,354 fresh data customers in
the first three months of 2016, representing
80 per cent of the total number of new
Internet subscribers acquired by all the
telecommunications networks.
In January alone, Globacom pulled 354,178
new data subscribers, had 248,593 in
February and 845, 583 in March, upping the
cumulative figure of its data subscribers to
26, 530,420 in the first quarter.
According to the report, a total figure of
1,820,651 new data customers subscribed to
the four major telecoms networks in the
period under review.
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