Telecom industry reports show that the GSM subscriber base
of data
grandmasters, Globacom, has in the last one year increased sharply by
5,063,895.
The company's number of customers which stood at 31,256,677 by June
2015 rose to 36,320,572 at the end of June this year. The new 5,063,895
customers represented 68% of the 7,477,977 additional GSM lines in the
country in the last 12 months.
The latest statistics published on the website of
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) showed that Airtel placed
second on the table with 2,414,082 new customers or 32%.
However, it was reverse fortunes for MTN and Etisalat as they both
suffered losses.
While Etisalat lost 382,336 customers, MTN's subscriber base went down
by 4, 403,344 in the last one year.
Details of the NCC report showed that Globacom's market share has risen
from 21% to 24%, while MTN which once overwhelmingly dominated the
sector by over 45% suffered a significant reduction to 39% as it
recorded 58.4m subscribers compared to 62,813,111 it had a year ago.
Thus, while Glo has reduced the gap between it and MTN, it has
substantially widened the gap between it and Airtel. Both Glo and
Airtel previously had the same 21% market share a few months ago, with
Glo enjoying a marginal lead then.
Airtel which had 29,564,766 subscribers at the middle of last year, had
31,978,848 customers at the end of June 2016.
This still keeps it at 21% share of the GSM market. Fourth operator
Etisalat has 15% share with 22,469,896 customers at the end of June,
2016, compared to 22,852,232 in June last year.
Globacom has also for the last one and half years been the leader in
the data market.
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