Nigeria Currently Has 222 Million Active Phone Numbers, According To Ncc.
According to estimates from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the nation of Nigeria added 25.1 million telephone lines to its network in 2022.
These 25.1 million lines comprised newly active lines as well as lines that were revived after being deactivated for failing to comply with the NIN-SIM linkage exercise in the course of 2022.
Since the country’s telecommunications revolution began more than 20 years ago, 316 million linked telephone lines have been made possible by GSM platforms, according to subscription statistics provided by the NCC yesterday, the last for 2022, which is the December edition. By the end of 2022, 222.2 million of these 316 million people were still engaged.
Nigeria had 197.4 million active telephone lines at the beginning of 2022, 198.1 million in February, 199.5 million in March, 201.6 million in April, 204.5 million in May, 206.4 million in June, and 208.9 million in July.
It was 209.9 million in August, 212.2 million in September, 214.6 million in October, 218.9 million in November, and 222.5 million in December.
In fact, the country’s teledensity increased by 12.8% from January to December 2022. From January to December 2022, it increased from 103.79 percent to 116.6 percent.
The teledensity of a given geographic region is the number of phone connections per 100 residents. When comparing the availability of voice and data communications services across urban and rural regions or between different nations, teledensity is often employed.
Additional study of the December statistics revealed that the narrowband, or GSM, systems, which are used for Internet subscriptions, acquired 11.1 million additional customers. By December of last year, the data had increased from 143.2 million in January to 154.3 million.
In contrast, Nigeria may be on pace to reach the objective of 70% broadband penetration by 2025 set out in the New National Broadband Plan (NNPB 2020 to 2025), as the penetration rate reached 47.3 % by year’s end and around 90.3 million Nigerians were utilizing the service nationwide. It implies that in 2022, there were in fact 10.9 million more broadband customers.
