Active subscriptions for the internet across mobile, fixed, and VOIP networks in Nigeria declined to 141.1 million in June this year.
According to the latest industry statistics released by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), this represents a 0.3% decline when compared with the 141.5 million recorded in May.
The NCC’s data reveals that the mobile network operators MTN, Airtel, Globacom, and T2 (9mobile) maintained their dominance of the internet market with 140.6 million subscriptions.
This left ISPs and others with 528,633 subscriptions at the end of June.
Despite the decline in subscriptions, data consumption by subscribers maintained its upward trajectory. According to the NCC data, Nigerians consumed 1.044 million terabytes of data in June, slightly higher than the 1.043 terabytes recorded in May.
“Cities like Lagos are growing at lightning speed, more people, more businesses, more devices,” he said.
Meanwhile, total active subscriptions across the four mobile networks also declined in June, dropping to 171.5 million from 172.4 million recorded in May.
However, the decline was driven mainly by MTN. While MTN remains the largest operator by subscriber number, its active subscriptions declined by 1 million to 89.2 million from 90.2 million in May.
Meanwhile, with the decline in actively connected lines recorded by the operators, the country’s teledensity, which measures the number of active telephone connections per 100 inhabitants living within an area, also declined to 79.22% from 79.65% recorded in May.