Information consumption reached 721,522 terabytes in January 2024, the best month-to-month consumption ever recorded, in response to the Nigerian Communications Fee.
Information obtained on Tuesday from the regulator’s web site confirmed that this document surpassed December 2023, which stood at 713,200 terabytes.
Lively Web subscriptions totalled 161,977,883, reflecting a considerable improve from the 156,244,368 subscriptions recorded in January of the previous 12 months.
Completely different service suppliers make up the variety of Web subscriptions; they embrace telcos (cellular), Web Service Suppliers (ISPs), Voice over Web Protocol (VoIP) and Mounted.
Cell subscriptions accounted for 161,504,390, with Web service suppliers—wired or wi-fi—recording 213,876 subscriptions, fastened wire connections totalling 21,437, and Voice over Web Protocol (VoIP) reaching 238,180.
In keeping with the NCC, January 2024 witnessed a decline of 1.9 million Web customers in comparison with December 2023, dropping from 163.8 million to 161.9 million.
Nonetheless, Web penetration remained sturdy at 42.53 per cent, with broadband subscriptions totalling 92,195,937 million.
The information present that 2G connections stay predominant, however the proportion of 4G subscriptions has been steadily rising.
By way of market share by community generations, 2G accounted for 57.78 per cent in January 2024, 3G was 9.36 per cent in January, and in December 2023, it was 9.80 per cent.
4G subscriptions elevated from 31.33 per cent in December 2023 to 31.75 per cent, indicating a rising desire for high-speed connectivity.
5G subscriptions accounted for 1.11 per cent of all connections in Nigeria in January 2024, up from 1.04 per cent recorded in December 2023.
The Worldwide Telecommunications Union, a specialised company of the United Nations, just lately revealed that Africa maintains the bottom 5G protection fee globally, standing at solely 6 per cent as of December 2023.
This disparity is attributed partially to the continued significance of older cellular applied sciences, notably 2G and 3G networks, throughout the continent.
The ITU report highlighted the persistence of 2G and 3G networks in lots of African international locations, contrasting with their phase-out in developed nations.
These legacy applied sciences stay integral to the telecommunications panorama in African nations, notably these with lower-income economies.
In its report, the ITU underscored the continued predominance of 2G and 3G networks in international locations like Nigeria.
These applied sciences provide a cheap technique of delivering important cellular companies, comparable to voice calls and textual content messages, notably in areas missing entry to 4G and 5G networks.