Internet users in Nigeria are now at a record 93 million users, the Nigerian Communications Commission revealed in its Monthly Internet Subscriber Data.
The commission said that the number of internet users on the country’s telecom networks increased to 93,551,811 in July from 92,816,572 in June. The data shows that of the 93,551,811 internet users in July, 93,403,147 were on GSM networks, while 148,664 users were on CDMA.
Of the number, MTN Nigeria has almost half of the 93 million as the telecoms giant has 41,101,886 customers browsing the internet on its network. MTN had an increase of 616,216 internet subscribers in July alone after it recorded 40,485,670 users in the month of June.
Glo comes in next with 19,330,549 subscribers surfing the net in July; Airtel Nigeria with 17,605,852 internet users and Etisalat having 15,393,860 internet users in July.
Compared to MTN’s 616,216 internet subscriber increase within a month, Airtel had an increase of 7,226 internet subscribers and Etisalat had an increase of 108,781 within the same time frame.
The NCC’s report also showed that the CDMA operators (Multi-Links and Visafone), had a joint total of 148,664 internet users on their networks in July. An increase of 33,016 from the figure of 115,648 users they recorded in June.
Visafone had an increase of 32,980 customers surfing the internet in July, rising to 148,461, compared to the 115,481 users in June. Multi-Links had 203 internet users in July, adding 38 customers from the June record of 165 users.
NCC declared that the country was making progress towards achieving 30 per cent broadband penetration by 2018.
