Nigeria connected telephone lines hit 161 million, as at March statistics

Although, the quality of network service offered by telecoms operators in Nigeria, over the past few months, have often been too poor, the number of connected telephone lines is growing so 'fast'. As at March statistics released by the Nigerian Communication Commission, NCC, shows that the connected lines in the country stand at 161 million.
In February this year, the country's connected lines stood at 116 million, but saw a 'huge' turnover in March, 117 million lines were added.
Telecom operators such as, MTN Nigeria; Globacom; Airtel and Etisalat all have 114 million subscribers. While Code Division Multiple Access, CDMA operators including Visafone, Multilinks and Starcomms , experienced great loss of subscribers. The active subscribers in February was 2,780,989, lost 87,385 subscribers in March with 2,703,604.
Also, Fixed wired/wireless sectors lost almost 5,000 in March with 405,625 as opposed to 410,664 subscribers in February.