‘Glo is 2019 best performer’

Our Reporter

Telecoms firm, Globacom, has been rated as the best performer in terms of subscriber acquisition in 2019, raking in over six million new subscribers between January, last year and January, this year.

This reconfirmed the network’s rating as the preferred network for new telecom subscribers in the sector.

On the other hand, 9mobile lost subscribers during the year as 3.23 customers left its network.The company’s subscriber base dropped to 13,157,543 from the 16,385,317 it had in January, last year.

The website of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on Friday showed that Globacom took its subscriber base from 45,603,638 in January, last year, to 51,755,561 at the end of the review period.

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Airtel followed Glo’s sterling performance with an addition of 5.03 million new customers during the year under review to reach a new subscriber base of 49,997,710 from 44,970,973 a year ago, while MTN raked in 4.03 million additional subscribers to have a total of 70,693,058 GSM users on its network. Its figure as at January, last year, was 66,665,378.

In all, the number of GSM subscribers in the country rose to 185,742,016 in January this year, from 173,625,306 in January, last year. This is an increase of 12,116,710 new subscribers or a growth of seven per cent year-on-year.

With this, MTN remains Nigeria’s largest mobile network operator with 38 per cent market share. Globacom retains second largest operator with 27.86 per cent. Airtel maintained third place with 26.92 per cent.