[Nigeria] Glo Emerges Leader of Internet Market

One of the nation's leading telecoms network, Globacom, has once again emerged the fastest growing network in terms of acquisition of internet subscribers in Nigeria's telecommunications industry.

This was according to the report of the third quarter of 2015 just released on the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, website. The report indicated that Globacom gained the highest number of internet users in September 2015 with over a million new internet users on its network.

NCC indicated that Globacom had 21,896,229 internet users on its network as at the end of September, up from 20,765,379 data users in August. The figure showed an addition of 1,130,850 new internet subscribers.

Globacom's figure was higher than the total number of new internet users who joined the three other major telecom operators, MTN, Airtel and Etisalat. The three recorded a combined total of 716,450 new internet subscribers in September.

MTN placed second by recording additional 423,448 new internet users on its network. Airtel placed third with 235,941 new subscribers, while Etisalat recorded the least number of new internet users in the industry with additional 57,061 new data subscribers joining the network in September.

For several months, Globacom has led the race for the acquisition of new internet users in the market. The network added 1,434,830 data users last August, while MTN recorded 309,960 and Etisalat 147,149 new internet surfers. Airtel on its part had a drop of 110,838.

The steady growth in the number of data subscribers on the Globacom network is said to be a fall-out of the improved data services which followed the networks improvement exercise being carried out by the company.

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