MTN Nigeria is the biggest gainer of new Internet users in one year, according to the latest monthly subscribers’ data from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).
The figure from January 2019 to January 2020, showed that MTN gained 9.6 million new Internet subscribers, followed by Airtel with 5.04 million new Internet.
Globacom, during the period under review, added 1.84 million new Internet customers to its network.
The NCC mobile Internet subscriber’s data showed that in one year, 9mobile lost 1.89 million Internet users.
Further analysis of the data indicated that the country gained a total of 16.73 million new Internet users during the period under review.
MTN had 45,931,171 Internet subscribers in January 2019 but recorded 55,527,289users by the end of January 2020.
On the Visafone spectrum, now owned by MTN, there were 90,196 mobile Internet users as of January 2020.
Airtel, which had 30,460,528 Internet subscribers in January 2019, gained 5,042,126 more to record 35,502,654 in January this year while Globacom’s mobile Internet subscriber base increased to 29,205,304 in January this year from 27,600,539 in January last year.
On the contrary, the data showed that 9mobile’s Internet subscribers declined from 9,882,966 in January 2019 to 8,040,261 in January 2020, losing 1,842,705 mobile Internet users.