Telecoms operators lose 1.7m subscribers in March – NCC

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said that telecommunication operators lost 1,653,286 subscribers in March.
The telecommunications industry regulator made this known in its Monthly Subscriber/Operator Data released on Friday in Lagos, according to NAN.

It said that the active telecommunications service customers, which was 154,120,484 in February, declined to 152,467,198 in March, 2017.

According to the data, 151,999,197 of the 152,467,198 active numbers subscribed to the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network services.

The GSM operators’ active customers decreased by 1,662,350 on the 153,661,547 subscribers recorded in February.

The report stated that of the GSM operators, MTN had 60,391,959 users in March, showing a decrease of 998,738 from the 61,390,697 recorded in February.

Globacom’s figure increased in March by 78,372, giving a total of 37,328,827 customers, as against 37,250,455 in February.

Airtel had 34,656,605 subscribers in the month under review, which showed a decline of 175,576 users, from the 34,832,181 recorded in February.

Etisalat also recorded a drop in customers by 566,408 in March, giving a customer base of 19,621,806, as against 20,188,214 users in February.

The Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) operators had 217,566 users in March, the same with the result of February.