‘Glo attains 72% internet penetration’

Globacom has recorded the highest data penetration among telecom operators in the country, the company said in a statement.

Globacom’s data penetration is contained in the report covering the first three months of year 2017 just released by industry regulators, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).

In the industry report, Globacom recorded a total number of 27,021,200 internet users on its network, which represents 72% of 37,328,827 subscribers on the network at the end of the quarter.

The data penetration rate of 72% recorded by the network is more than the industry average of 59%. The total number of internet users in the industry stood at 90,003,101 as at the end of Quarter 1 compared to a total of 152,216,763 subscribers in the industry.

The report puts Etisalat as second with a data penetration of 68% as it had 13,008,481 data users out of a total subscriber base of 19,621,806. Airtel came third with 56% internet penetration. Data users on its network as at March, 2017, was 19,423,760, out of the total 34,656,605 subscribers on its network.

MTN recorded the least penetration of data users on its network when compared with the total number of subscribers using the network. Only 30,519,351 or 51% of its 60,391,959 customers subscribed to its data services.