Nigeria’s smartphone adoption surpasses feature phones first time ever

.4G emerges dominant network   Smartphone adoption in Nigeria surpassed feature phone penetration for the first time in September 2024, according to new data from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). This coincides with a surge in data usage, which grew by 30.16 percent year-on-year to 850,249.09 terabytes (TB) during the month. Active mobile subscriptions decreased by 30.14 percent year on year to 154.63 million in September 2024, and a breakdown of the market share revealed that subscriptions on 2G fell to 4