internet users on Nigeria's telecommunications networks have
reduced to 92,281,921, as at June 2016.
The commission made this known in its monthly Internet Subscriber
Data, which was obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
in Lagos.
A breakdown of the data showed that internet users on both the Global
System for Mobile communications (GSM), and the Code Division Multiple
Access (CDMA) networks reduced by
81,415. It further said that 92,363,336 subscribers surfed the
internet in May, but that only 92,281,921 did in June.
The data showed that out of the 92,281,921 internet users in June,
92,181,178 were on the GSM networks, while 100,743 users were on the
CDMA. Of the 92,181,178 internet users on the GSM networks in the
month under review, the document showed that MTN Nigeria had
32,974,177 customers browsing on its
network. It stated that MTN suffered a decrease of
134,609 internet subscribers in June, after it recorded 33,108,786
users in the month of May.
According to the report, Globacom had 26,628,065 customers surfing the
net in June, showing an increase of 272,674 from its May's
record of 26,355,391. It also said that Airtel Nigeria network
recorded a rise of users with 17,325,423 internet users in the month
of June, as against
17,280,089 customers in May. The records, therefore, showed that
Airtel Nigeria network users increased by 45,334 in the month of June.
The data also showed that Etisalat had 15,253,513 internet users in
June, as against the 15,508,024 in May, recording a decrease of
254,511 users in the month under review. It also revealed that the
CDMA operators (Multi- Links and Visafone), had a joint total of
100,743 internet users on their networks in June. It showed that the
only surviving two CDMA
networks in the country listed a decrease of 10,303 internet
subscribers in the month
under review, from the 111,046 users they recorded in May. Visafone
had 100,739 customers surfing the internet in June, showing a
reduction of 10,303 users from its May record of 111,042. Multi-Links
had 4 internet users in the month of June, same as in May 2016. The
document stressed the need for more
Nigerians to embrace the internet, to speed up the country's progress
towards achieving 30 per cent broadband penetration by 2018.
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