Nigeria’s Internet Users Reduce By 81,415 – NCC

The Nigerian Communications Commission on Thursday
said that 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.
A breakdown of the data showed that internet users on
both the Global System for Mobile Communications, and
the Code Division Multiple Access 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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