Dormant telephone lines in the country increased to 48,228,087 in February, from 44,665,145 in January, the Nigerian Communications Commission said on Thursday.
The Monthly Subscriber Data made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos stated that the figures had increased by 3,562,942 between the period.
The data showed that only 129,002,841 lines, out of the 177,230,928 connected lines within the period, were active.
It said that 41,125,297 out of the 48,228,087 inactive lines belonged to the Global System for Mobile communications operators.
The data said that the Code Division Multiple Access operators had 5,221,944 inactive lines, while the fixed wired/wireless networks had 1,880,846 inactive lines.
The data also showed an increment of 1,042,261 active lines in February’s figure of 129,002,841, as against the 127,960,580 active lines recorded in January.
The data stated that from the February active figures stated above, the GSM operators had 126,246,648 working lines.
Also, the CDMA networks had 2,398,581 active numbers, while the fixed wired/wireless operators had 357,612 lines, it said.
The data stated that the installed capacity in the sector rose by 538,903 lines to 247,771,162 lines in February, from the 247,232,259 line capacities in January.
NAN reports that installed capacity refers to the total infrastructure a network puts in place to accommodate a certain number of telephone lines, in order to avoid congestion or poor network quality.
From it, the GSM networks had 217,939,485 installed capacity in February, as against 217,400,582 installed capacities in January, which amounted to 538,903 increment in installed capacities.
Also, the data stated that the CDMA (mobile) operators had continued to maintain their 18.4 million infrastructure, while the Fixed wired/wireless networks had maintained their capacity of 11,431,677 since October 2013.
The teledensity of the nation’s telecommunications industry had also risen to 92.14 per cent in February, compared to 91.40 per cent in January.
The teledensity measures the percentage of a country’s population with access to telecommunications services, as determined by the subscriber base.
Nigeria’s teledensity is currently calculated by the NCC on a population of 140 million people.
The data showed that some subscribers purchased SIM cards, but dumped them after using them for some time.
The increase in the installed capacity showed that telecommunications’ operators were doing all within their powers to ensure that subscribers get better services.
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