Digital Services Company, Globacom, rerecorded 83% of all additional GSM lines in the country in the month of July. Telecom industry statistics published on the website of Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) showed that a total of 2,103,721 lines were added by Globacom out of 2,523,479 lines that were activated in the country in July 2022. Thus the company increased its subscriber base from 56,226,479 to 58,330,200.
The company beat MTN which recorded 392,440 to a distant second, while Airtel came third with 90,955 new customers. On the other hand, 9mobile recorded a loss, moving down from12,659,356 in June to 12,595,516 subscribers in July.
The regulator’s report also showed that the total of new subscriptions across the networks in the country rose from 206 million in June to 208.6 million during the period under review, while the number of active telephone connections per 100 inhabitants living within an area also known as teledensity also recorded an increase, moving from108.15 per cent in June to 109.47 per cent in July, 2022.
It added that a total of 13.5 million new subscribers joined the mobile networks in 2022. It moved from 195,128,265 recorded in December, 2021, to 208,604,996 at the end of July, 2022, a sharp contrast from the same period in 2021 when there was a ban on new SIM registration and the operators lost close to 20 million subscribers.
The surge in Globacom’s customers base, as shown in the NCC report, is no doubt a result of its investment in continuous network upgrade and optimization through which it has extended 4G data coverage to the nooks and crannies of the country.