The Nigerian Communications
Commission, NCC, says the number of
internet users on the Global System for
Mobile communications (GSM) networks
has increased from 76,322, 802 in 2014
to 81,892,840 in January 2015.
This is contained in the NCC Monthly
Internet Subscriber Data, obtained by the
News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday in
Lagos.
According to the data, there is an increase
of 5,570,038 internet users on the
networks in January.
It showed that from the 81,892,840
internet users recorded in January, MTN
Nigeria led the table with 39,173,123
customers browsing the internet on its
network.
It stated that MTN had an increase of
556,386 internet subscribers in January,
after it recorded 38,616,737 users in the
month of December 2014.
According to the data, Globacom is
second on the internet usage table,
recording 17,671,405 subscribers surfing
the net with its network in January.
The data revealed that Globacom gained
a total of 532,085 additional internet
users on its network, up from 17,139,320
users in December 2014.
Airtel Nigeria, it said was third on the roll
with 14,969,924 internet users in
January, as against 14,371,987
customers recorded in December.
The data showed that internet users on
the Airtel Nigeria network also increased
by 597,937 in January.
It disclosed that Etisalat was last on the
table with 10,078,388 of its customers
browsing the internet in January,
compared to the 6,194,758 users in
December, an increase of 3,883,630
users.
The NCC data also revealed that the Code
Division Multiple Access (CDMA)
operators (Multi-Links and Visafone) had
a joint total of 153,798 internet users on
their networks in January.
It showed, however, that the only
surviving two CDMA networks in the
country listed a loss of 526 internet
subscribers in the month under review
from the 154,324 users they recorded in
December.
The data stated that Visafone recorded a
decrease of 311 customers surfing the
internet in January, reducing the number
to 153,059 compared to the 153,370
users in the month of December.
It said that Multi-Links had 739 internet
users in January, hence losing 215
customers from the December record of
954 users.
The data further showed that in spite of
the decrease on the part of the CDMA
networks, Nigerians were gradually
embracing data as the next revolution in
the Information and Communications
Technology sector.
