Nigeria’s telecoms service provider, Globacom, has continued to
maintain its leadership position in the data segment of Nigeria's
telecom industry as it topped the new internet subscriber acquisition
chart for the first three months of 2016.
Glo
Brand Ambassador, Chinedu Okoli (Flavour); Glo Brand Specialist, Mutiat
Balogun; Glo Retail and Consumer Sales Chief, David Maji; Brand
Ambassador, Peter Okoye; Brand Specialist, Chineye Ojukwu; Brand
Ambassador, Paul Okoye; Glo Brand Ambassador, Di’ja Blell; and Glo
Manager, Devices & Partnership, Odafe Akerejola
This marks over one year of the network being on top of the gainers table in the sector.
Industry
regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), in its Q1
report for year 2016 stated that 354,178 new internet subscribers got
on the Glo network in January, 248,593 in February and 845,583 in the
month of March, bringing Globacom’s total internet customers to
26,530,420 at the end of the quarter.
In total, Globacom lapped up 1,448,354 new internet users on its network in the first 90 days of the year.
A
breakdown of the figures shows that Globacom’s 1,448,354 new
subscribers represents 80 percent of the total number of 1,820,651 new
customers that subscribed to internet services of the four major
telecom operators in the first quarter of this year.
Airtel,
on its part, gained 319,229 new data users, while Etisalat gained
53,068 during the period. The two operators’ gains constituted the
remaining 20 percent of the total figure of 1,820,651 new internet
subscribers.
MTN, the fourth GSM data provider,
was on the losing side as over 6.5 million internet subscribers left its
network during the review period.
Globacom has
been recording steady increase in data users acquisition in the last one
year, with a total of 7,251,657 new subscribers in the 12 months of
February 2015 to January 2016.
This trend was
sustained in the last quarter of 2015 during which Globacom gained 3.2m
new internet subscribers, while all the other major telcos lost
subscribers.
MTN lost almost 2 million internet
customers in the quarter; Airtel shed nearly 900,000 subscribers, while
Etisalat lost 408,282 in the same quarter.