93.3 million UNIQUE mobile phone subscribers in Nigeria
There are now 93.3 million UNIQUE mobile phone subscribers in Nigeria. Yet, note that the data is not coming directly from NCC, the industry regulator. So, this debate has not been concluded. But if we use it, it means that out of the 160 million active lines, about 93 million are possibly unique.
Although there are about 240 million telephone connections in Nigeria, with no fewer than 160 million active lines, the country has 93.3 million unique mobile phone subscribers.
Unique subscribers mean individual connections to a device, but Nigeria has a multi-Sims culture, which has fueled the exponential growth in telephone connections in the country in the last one and a half decade.
Speaking with The Guardian yesterday in Kigali, Rwanda at the opening of the 2018 GSMA Mobile 360 Conference, Lead Analyst, GSMA, Kenechi Okeleke, disclosed that research showed that Nigeria had 93.3 million subscribers as at last year.