The Nigerian Communications Commission on Thursday said that active lines in the nation’s telecommunications industry reduced to 127.09 million in the first quarter of 2014.
The NCC made this known in its Monthly Subscriber’s Data made available on its website.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the lines were down by 1.90 million from 129 million recorded in February.
The data showed that from the 127 million active numbers, the Global System for Mobile Communications networks were serving 124.88 million subscribers, against the 126.24 million customers recorded in February, losing 1.36 million of the lines.
The Code Division Multiple Access operators, who had more than 2.3 million users in February, lost 359,190 users, leaving them with 2,039,391 customers in the first quarter.
The subscriber data also showed that the Fixed Wired/Wireless networks’ consumers were reduced to 172,963 in March, after losing 184,649 from 357,612 subscribers.
The connected lines in the telecoms operators’ networks also reduced from 177.23 million in February to 173 million in March, a shortfall of 4.22 million.
It said that the GSM operators were able to connect an extra 1.22 million lines to the 167.37 million lines they had in February, “hence, increasing their connected numbers to 168.59 million in March”.
The data said CDMA networks lost 3.53 million from the 7.62 million lines in February, leaving them with 4.08 million connected phone numbers in the first quarter.
The Fixed Wired/Wireless operators with 2.23 million connected numbers in February, lost 1.91 million, leaving them with just 327,524 connected lines.
The data showed that telecoms subscribers were dumping their telephone lines, thereby showing the decrease in active lines.
The data also revealed that the teledensity of the country’s telecommunications industry reduced from 92.14 per cent in February to 90.78 per cent in the first quarter.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that teledensity measures the percentage of a country’s population with access to telecommunications services as determined by the subscribers’ base.
Nigeria’s teledensity is currently calculated by NCC on the basis of the national population of 140 million people.
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