Nigeria’s internet usage on GSM networks increases to 81 million in January 2015 - NAN

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, says the number of internet users on the Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) networks has increased from 76,322, 802 in 2014 to 81,892,840 in January 2015.

This is contained in the NCC Monthly Internet Subscriber Data, obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday in Lagos.

According to the data, there is an increase of 5,570,038 internet users on the networks in January compared to the 6,194,758 users in December

MTN had the lion share with an increase of 556,386 internet subscribers, to record 38,616,737.

Globacom is second on the internet usage table, with a gain of 532,085 to stand at 17,671,405 subscribers.

Airtel Nigeria, comes third with an increase of 597,937 to get a total of 14,969,924 internet.

Etisalat came last with an increase of 3,883,630 to end at 10,078,388 customers browsing the internet

Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) operators (Multi-Links and Visafone) had a joint total of 153,798 internet users.

Visafone lost 311 customers reducing the number to 153,059.

Multi-Links lost 215 customers reducing the number to 739 from 954.