WEATHER REPORT Telecoms operators activate new 1.57m mobile subscriptions in February

Sunny skies and hazy atmosphere anticipated over the Northern region. North Central should experience hazy atmosphere. Hazy atmosphere with few patches of cloud should prevail over Inland states of the South and the coastal belt, while isolated thunderstorms are expected over parts of Delta, Akwa Ibom, Rivers and Bayelsa states.

TELECOMS operators activated new 1.57 million mobile subscriptions in February as active mobile users in Nigeria rose to 219.7 million from 218.1 million in January. Subscription statistics from the Nigerian Communications Commission ( NCC) released yesterday, revealed this.

Recall that the operators had, according to previous data, had lost about six million lines between December 2023 and January 2024, in the wake of the implementation of the NIN- SIM directive.

Analysis of the data showed that MTN is still the largest operator in the country. It added 1.1 million new subscriptions in February. This brought its subscriptions figure to 80.9 million.

Airtel also added 434,175 new subscriptions in the month under review. This pushed up its subscription database from 62.6 million in January to 63 million in February.

Although not as much as MTN and Airtel, Globacom also recorded a gain as it added 176,756 new subscriptions in the month. Globacom had 62.1 million active subscriptions in February compared with 61.9 million in the previous month.

The data however, showed that 9mobile, in the period under review, lost 151,517 subscriptions. It currently serves 13.6m active subscriptions.