Unused or abandoned lines on MTN, Airtel, Globacom, and 9mobile networks climbed to 96.7 million in February 2023. This is based on a report from the Nigerian Telecommunication Commission’s most recent subscriber statistics release (NCC), as seen on Nairametrics, a Nigerian business news agency.
Based on the NCC’s data, the four major mobile networks in Nigeria, (Glo, MTN, Airtel, and 9 Mobile) had a total of N323.6 million linked lines in February of this year. Yet, by month’s end, there were 226.8 million active lines throughout all four networks.
This demonstrates that telecom operators were able to generate income from 70% of their consumers throughout the evaluation period. A mobile line is deemed dormant if the user does not use it to initiate or receive calls or access data services within at least 90 days.