About 1.23 million new telecommunications subscribers joined the networks between October and November 2021 in Nigeria, pushing the nation’s teledensity from 100.56 per cent to 101.20 per cent during the period.
The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC in a latest subscription statistics indicated that the subscribers increased from 191.9 million in October to 193.2 million in November.
The new addition did not impact Internet subscription, but the users, especially, via the narrowband, marginally increased by 77, 553, moving from 139.9 million to 140 million within the period.
From the data, broadband penetration rate remained low as well, as players in the sub-segment only added 168,027 new users to the networks.
