Mobile service provider, Globacom, has gown its subscriber base by about 400,000 between March and the month of April, 2018.
This was disclosed in the latest sector report published on the website of the telecom industry regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). The report showed that Globacom’s subscriber figure increased specifically with 480,832 customers, meaning that the network’s customers swelled from 39,042,979 in March to 39,523,811 in April.
The latest figures mean that the network has been growing steadily since January 2018 year, rising from 38,169,780 at the end of December, 2017, to 38,228,018 in January, 38,423,184 in February, 39,042,979 in March and 39,523,811 in April. In summary, Glo has added 1.36 million more subscribers to its network in 4 months.
With this, Globacom remains the second largest telecommunications operator in the country.
Also, the operator in the last one year has grown its subscriber base by 2.25 million, as the customer base rose from 37,270,100 in April, 2017, to 39,523,811 in April, 2018.
Globacom’s success, industry watchers believe, is a result of its attractive and user-friendly packages which make its services the most accessible and most affordable.
Other figures released by NCC show that connected telephone lines in the country reduced marginally from 242.6 million in March to 242.53 million in April.
These include GSM, Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Fixed Wired/Wireless and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). However, GSM lines remained dominant with 238.1 million connections in March and 238.03 million in April.
However, total active telephone lines in the country rose from 148.6 million in March to 160.1 million lines at the end of April.