Mobile subscription in Nigeria reaches 222.23m – NCC
Number of mobile subscriptions in Nigeria rose to 222.23 million in 2022 despite the implementation of the National Identification Number-Subscriber Identity Module policy, according to data from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).
NCC also disclosed that the total number of subscriptions grew from 195.13 million as of December 2021 to 222.23 million in December 2022.
At the start of the policy in April, over 72.77 million active telecommunication subscriptions were barred from making calls. But the industry has since shaken off the effect of this and grew by 13.89 percent in 2022.
This growth signified a complete shake-off of the decline that plagued the telecoms industry in 2021 when the total number of mobile subscriptions declined by 4.42 percent from 204.15 million as of December 2020 to 195.13 million as of December 2021.
In the period under review, MTN Nigeria grew by 20.96 percent from 73.59 million to 89.02 million; Airtel grew by 11.38 percent from 53.93 million to 60.07 million; Globacom grew by 9.98 percent from 54.82 million to 60.29 million; and 9mobile grew by 0.49 percent from 12.85 million to 12.79 million. In 2022, teledensity, the number of active telephone connections per 100 inhabitants living within an area grew to 116.60 percent, representing the highest on record.
