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Consistent with the Nigeria Bureau Statistics (NBS) report for Q3, 2017, launched last weekend, the GSM platform remained most likely essentially the most dominant strategy of accessing the Internet for subscribers in Nigeria.
The report confirmed that for the interval beneath evaluation, energetic GSM Internet subscriptions stood at 92.9 million representing a 1.5 per cent progress from the sooner quarter’s 91.5 million, and a Zero.22 per cent decline from the equivalent interval last 12 months.
The NBS report educated that “whereas GSM Internet subscriptions have been on a declining growth over 12 months to this point 2016, subscriptions picked up in 2017, displaying a Three.Three per cent progress from Q1 2017 to Q3 2017.’’
Consistent with the report, Airtel robustly gained subscribers every quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year, rating it a very powerful contributor to the growth of complete energetic GSM net subscription with a 7.9 per cent progress compared with Q2 2017, and 15.6 per cent when compared with the equivalent interval in Q3 2016.
This mirrored inside the enhance of the company’s market share by 1.4 components from the sooner quarter and by Three.2 components from the equivalent interval last 12 months. MTN, Globacom Restricted (Glo), EMTS, which traded as Etisalat, now 9Mobile, had market shares of Zero.4,-Zero.7, -1.1 components and Zero.2, Zero.1.-Three.6 components by Three.2 components respectively from the equivalent interval last 12 months.
However, MTN had the perfect share of all GSM energetic Internet subscribers, capturing 35 per cent of subscriptions with 32.5 million prospects, adopted by Glo at 29 per cent of subscription with 26.9 million shoppers. Airtel at 23.4 per cent of subscriptions, with 21.7 million shoppers is third.