Nigerians and others living in the country have spent N3.33 trillion on calls, data, SMS, and other telecom services in 2022, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has said.
The NCC in its newly released ‘2022 Subscriber/Network Data Annual Report’, that the telecos raked in the money as revenue within the period under review.
According to the commission, the total number of active subscribers increased from 195,463,898 in 2021 to 222,571,568 active voice subscriptions as of December 2022, a 13.86 per cent year-on-year increase.
“The increase in the Operators’ subscriber base was attributed to a number of reasons which includes subscriber loyalty, promos, seasonal effects, aggressive consumer acquisition drive, and competitive product offerings across all the networks.”
It noted that the growth in active subscriptions impacted positively on other derived telecom indicators such as tele density, Internet and broadband penetration.
Data usage also increased by 46.77 per cent to 518,381.78TB as of the end of the year.
“There was an increase in the volume of data consumed at the year-end December 2022 when compared with the year-end December 2021.
