Nigeria's mobile subscriber base and teledensity continues its rise, 12 months on year.

According to the trendy data from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), cell phone subscriptions across all networks in the united states of america now stands at 185 million.

The determine represents an improve from the 173 million subscriptions recorded in December of 2018.

The statistics implies that the telecommunications enterprise grew by 12 million subscribers throughout all networks, in one year.

Nigeria now has a teledensity of 96.7 per cent, the facts from the NCC also shows.

The subscription price determine is the total number of registered subscribers on all networks, while teledensity is the range of lively telephone connections per 100 inhabitants residing in an area, frequently expressed as a percentage.

The upward shove and upward push of cellular telephony

According to the NCC, mobile subscriptions have maintained a consistent boom for eight consecutive months, starting from April when the discern stood at 173.6 million, rising to 173.7 million in May, earlier than peaking at 174 million in June of the equal year.

As of July 2019, telecoms subscriptions reached 174.9 million and in August of the identical year, the determine rose to 176.8 million and in September, it was once 179.2 million.

The upward fashion continued in October and November as subscriptions rose again to 180.4 million and 182.7 million respectively, earlier than rising to 184.7 million respectively.

Who is the Market leader / King of the mobile phone market?

MTN is the greatest telecoms operator by means of subscriber number in the country, with 69 million subscribers on its network.

Globacom is Nigeria’s second largest telecoms operator with 52 million subscribers on its network.

Airtel is ranked third with a subscriber base of 50 million.

9Mobile has 14 million subscribers on its network, to rank fourth.