Dormant GSM lines drop by 12% to 95m in Jan. 2023 – NCC
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has disclosed that the total number of unused or inactive SIM lines dropped by 12.28 percent to 95.16 percent year-on-year in January 2023.
According to NCC, the figure represents an indication of a growing reliance on telecommunication services in Nigeria as the number of unused lines fell from 108.47 million as of January 2022 to 95.16 million as of January 2023, despite a 5.04 percent overall increase in the number of SIM lines from 305.62 million to 321.04 million.
“While there has been a steady increase in the total number of SIMs in circulation, it has yet to rise past its August 2021 peak of 328.12 million.
“The fall of unused lines also coincided with the rise in the number of mobile active subscriptions, hitting 225.88 million in January 2023.
“This was a 14.57 percent year-on-year increase from the 197.15 million active subscriptions that the country had in the corresponding period of 2022,” according to NCC data.
