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Telecoms GDP Increases By 10%
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the contributions of telecommunications to the nation’s real Gross Domestic Product increased by 10.52 per cent year-on-year. This increase was to N7.28 trillion in the first nine months of 2022. In the corresponding period of 2021, the sector contributed N6.58 trillion to real GDP. NBS said that the…
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Active Internet Subscriptions Rise By 2.7%
The National Bureau of Statistics has said that the number of active internet subscriptions in Nigeria rose quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) by 2.7 percent. This is a rise to 145.8 million in the first quarter of 2022 (Q1’22), from 141.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2021 (Q4’21). NBS disclosed this in its ‘Telecoms Data: Active Voice…
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Telecom Firms’ Diesel Cost Jumps By 233%
According to analysis and computation of data from Nigerian telecoms operators, the cost of powering telecommunication services with diesel has jumped by at least 233.33 percent in recent months to N30 billion monthly. The development brings the annual cost of powering telecoms services with diesel to N360 billion. The operators under the aegis of the…
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In Five Years, Nigeria Attracted $3.9bn Telecoms Investments
According to a new report by Agusto & Co., Nigeria’s telecommunications industry attracted $3.9 billion in foreign portfolio and direct investments between 2015 and 2020. The credit rating agency, in its 2021 Telecommunications Industry report, said, “Between 2015 and 2020, foreign investments (portfolio and direct) attributable to the telecommunications industry amounted to $3.9bn, an average…
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’25m Nigerians Unconnected To Telecoms Services’
The Nigerian Communications Commission has said 25 million, out of the 200 million Nigerians, are still not connected to telecoms services. This is coming about 20 years after the liberalisation of the telecoms sector. The NCC said it has brought down the figure of underserved and unserved from 217 access gap clusters to 114. The…
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Telcos Lose Three Million Subscribers In April
Telecommunication companies in Nigeria have lost more than three million subscribers in the month of April 2021. This is according to new industry statistics released by the Nigerian Communications Commission. Subscriber base fell from 192,413,613 in March to 188,705,734 in April. Globacom was the biggest loser with about 2 million subscribers lost; MTN lost about…
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Nigeria Loses More To #TwitterBan (Part 1)
The Nigerian Government on June 4 announced – through the Ministry of Information and Culture– the indefinite suspension of Twitter’s operations in the country. “The Federal Government has suspended, indefinitely, the operations of the microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, in Nigeria,” the statements reads This suspension came after Twitter deleted a tweet by President…
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NIN Data: Over Half Of Nigeria’s Population Are Unregistered
In the early weeks of December, the Nigerian Communication Commission issued a directive to all mobile network operators to deactivate all SIM cards that will not be duly registered with valid national identity cards by December 30, 2020. At that time, only 41.5 million Nigerians of the estimated 200 million, according to the commission, had…