Nigeria’s GSM subscriber base has increased to 47,205,063 million at the end of April, an increase of over two million from the 45,899,711 recorded active subscriber base for the month of March.
The latest results posted on the website of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) also showed that the teledensity ratio has also increased to 33.72 per cent from 32.79per cent recorded at the end of March.
This increase is coming on the heels of efforts by stakeholders to ameliorate quality of service issues, which has of recent raised an outcry and led to NCC asking two major operators to refund a total of N4.7 billion to subscribers.
Subscribers base in the country has continued to increase since 2001 when the GSM technology was introduced. The teledensity ratio, which was 0.73per cent in 2001, has steadily increased over the years till it hit the 33.72 in April.
A breakdown of the data showed that the total active subscriber base increased from 45,899,711 to 47,205,063 up from 42,915,867 recorded in January. Out of this total, GSM recorded 43, 786,542 active lines, mobile CDMA, 567,185 and fixed wired/wireless 1,545,984.Total installed capacity also increased to 88,471,789 from 84,698,559 with mobile GSM also the highest with 79,625,308, mobile CDMA 3, 170,000. While fixed wired /wireless 5,676,481.Over the years, since the introduction of the GSM technology, subscriber base has consistently showed increases quarter by quarter and year by year.
