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- 7 Nov 2014
GSMA Predicts 500m Mobile Subscribers in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2020
The number of unique mobile subscribers in Sub-Saharan Africa will pass the half billion mark in 2020 as mobile services become increasingly affordable and accessible to millions of currently…
- 26 Jul 2016
Mobile Subscribers in Africa Surpasses Half a Billion - GSMA
More than half a billion people across Africa are now subscribed to mobile services as the continent continues to migrate rapidly to mobile broadband networks, reveals a new GSMA study. ‘The Mobile…
- 14 Jun 2017
Mobile Subscribers Worldwide Hits 5Bn
The world’s mobile industry has signed up its 5 billionth unique mobile subscriber, according to real-time data from GSMA Intelligence, the research arm of the GSMA. The 5 billion milestone means…
- 27 Feb 2017
GSMA Estimates Global Mobile Subscribers to Surpass 5Bn this Year
The number of unique mobile subscribers around the world will surpass 5 billion later this year, according to a new GSMA study. The 2017 global edition of the GSMA’s ‘Mobile Economy’ report reveals…
- 3 Mar 2015
1Bn New Unique Mobile Subscribers by 2020 - GSMA
An additional one billion people will become mobile subscribers over the next five years, according to a major new GSMA report published at Mobile World Congress yesterday. The new report, ‘The…
- 4 Jan 2023
Nigeria Added over 20 Million New Mobile Subscribers in 2022
Nigeria’s mobile subscription hit a new milestone after adding 23.48 million new subscriptions in 2022, to reach a total of 218.61 million subscriptions in the country, according to report by…
- 24 Jan 2018
ARCEP Mandates Glo-Mobile Subscribers to move to Etisalat
Benin’s telecommunications regulator ARCEP has announced a three month deadline starting on the 23rd of January 2018 for subscribers on the Glo-Mobile network to move to its former competitor…
- 23 Jan 2018
MTN Eyes 60m Mobile Money Subscribers in 4 Years
MTN, the biggest mobile network in Africa said it is targeting to increase its mobile money subscribers from the current 21 million to 60 million in the next three to four years across the continent.…
- 27 Oct 2024
Mobile Subscriber Base drops by 30 Percent as SIM-NIN Policy Takes Effect
Nigeria’s mobile subscriber base fell 30.09 percent to 153.32 million in September 2024, following deactivation of Subscriber Identification Modules (SIMs) not linked to a verified National…
- 12 Mar 2019
NBS Says Nigeria’s Active Mobile Subscribers Drops to 162m in Q4 2018
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Nigeria’s active mobile subscribers dropped to 162,032,481 million in the fourth quarter of 2018 from 172,824,239 million and 162,522,772 million recorded…
- 13 Feb 2015
Nigeria to Hit 182m Mobile Subscribers in 4 Years
Pyramid Research forecasts a positive outlook for the telecommunications market in Nigeria, the largest economy in Africa, with the mobile subscriber base growing to 182 million in the coming…
- 2 May 2021
MTN Nigeria’s Mobile Subscribers Decline by 5 Million to 71.5 Million in Q1 2021
MTN Nigeria Communications Plc has announced its unaudited results for the quarter ended 31 March 2021. The telecom company in a released unaudited result, reveals that its mobile subscribers…
- 22 Jun 2017
Ericsson Says Nigeria’s Mobile Subscribers Grew by 3million in Q1
Nigeria grew its mobile subscriptions by three million in the first quarter of 2017, the 12th Ericsson Mobility Report has shown. Mr Rutger Reman, managing director, Ericsson Nigeria while presenting…
- 5 Oct 2010
Mobile Broadband Subscribers Hit 800,000 in Nigeria
Fueled by the launch of new technologies, subscribers connected to mobile broadband internet hit a high of 800, 000 last month in Nigeria and Global System for Mobile Association (GSMA) is happy…
- 31 Dec 2019
Mobile Money Subscribers Hit 9.25m in 6 Months
The number of subscribers to the 23 Mobile Money Operators (MMOs) in the country stood at 9.25million as at the first half of this year, Alhaji Umaru Ibrahim, managing director and chief executive of…
- 1 Mar 2010
Glo Mobile Offers Subscribers Direct connection to Facebook
National Telecommunications operator, Globacom has introduced a new value added service tagged GloConnect which enables subscribers on the Glo Mobile network to connect directly to Facebook without…
- 16 Feb 2013
Nigeria Pushes MEA’s Mobile Subscribers to 1Bn
Nigeria will be at the driver’s seat with its over 113 million subscribers, when the Middle East and Africa (MEA) telecom market hits its first one-billionth in March, according to a new research…
- 28 Jun 2026
MTN Leads, Airtel Follows as Nigeria's Mobile Subscribers Climb to 188 Million
Nigeria's telecommunications sector recorded further growth in April 2026 as active mobile subscriptions increased to 188.01 million, while broadband penetration rose to 55.67 per cent, according to…
- 14 Nov 2012
Nigeria Mobile Subscriber Base to Hit 168m by 2017 - report
The number of mobile subscriptions in Nigeria will reach 168.99 million by the end of 2017 increasing from 100 million threshold in the second quarter of 2012, according to forecast by Informa…
- 20 Mar 2014
Glo Mobile Newspaper Service Excites Subscribers
Globacom’s customers who subscribe to Glo M-Paper, a mobile newspaper application, otherwise known as Glo Mobile Newspaper, have expressed satisfaction with the quality of delivery of the…
- 26 Mar 2016
Glo Mobile Ghana Delights Subscribers with 4 Mega Products
Glo Mobile has rolled out four exciting new products to give more value for money to its subscribers in Ghana. The products include Twin Bash, Three Minutes To Free, Weekend Browsing and Night…
- 14 Sept 2009
Starcomms Rewards Subscribers with Mobile Phones
Starcomms Plc a triple-play telecommunication network is offering two categories of mobile telephone, the ZTE X175 and the popular Haier D920, in a promotion that ultimately gives back the purchase…
- 22 Mar 2015
40% Large Companies Mobile Apps Subscribers Unsecured - Study
Worrisome findings of a study released by IBM and the Ponemon Institute show that nearly 40% of large companies, including many in the Fortune 500, are not taking the right precautions to secure the…
- 4 Feb 2017
Diamond Bank Mobile App Records 2m Subscribers
Diamond Bank has recorded two significant milestones in its digital banking drive with the signing up of a record two million subscribers each on its flagship mobile banking app –Diamond Mobile app,…
- 5 Mar 2020
MTN Records 6.1m New Subscribers in One Year
MTN Nigeria achieved the highest turnover in mobile subscriber number for voice calls on its network in 2019, despite the challenges it passed through in the past two years. The recent telecoms…
- 27 Mar 2023
Time for Nigeria’s MNOs to Empower Mobile Digital Ecosystem with their Subscriber Data
By Martin Effiong, Senior Operator Partnerships Lead at Infobip We are at a point where Nigeria’s financial inclusion drive is at its highest, digital commerce is growing in leaps and bounds and the…
- 24 May 2019
Nigeria’s mobile phone penetration hits 87 percent
Statistics released on Friday by Jumia shows that mobile phone penetration in Nigeria grew from 162 million subscribers in 2017 to over 172 million mobile subscribers in 2018, accounting to a…
- 28 Apr 2019
Why SIM Card Registration in Necessary by NCC
Nigeria’s Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) registration initiative - which required all mobile phone subscribers to register their SIM cards with their respective mobile network operators - was…
- 28 May 2026
Bharti Airtel Named Fourth Largest Mobile Network Operator in the World
The top ten mobile network operators in the world account for roughly 3.8 billion subscriptions, about 43 percent of the 8.8 billion mobile lines in service worldwide as of mid-2024. The composition…
- 8 Jun 2016
Should I Stay or Go: 5 Emerging Reasons Mobile Customers Churn
As network quality improves, mobile subscribers globally are placing more importance on customer service and value when choosing an operator, Nokia's 2016 Acquisition and Retention study shows. The…