The Nigerian Communications Commission
(NCC) announced,on Monday, that Nigeria’s teledensity or telephone
penetration now stands at 103.91 per cent as at the end of April.
According to the commission’s Monthly Subscriber Data, the country’s active telephone lines is now 145,476,326.
NCC said that teledensity was calculated
based on population estimate of 126 million up till December 2005 and
from December 2006 it was based on a population estimate of 140 million.
It said that from December 2001 to 2006,
teledensity was based on connected subscribers and from December 2007
it was based on active subscriptions on mobile networks.
The data showed that industry
teledensity stood at 92.42 per cent as at April 2014 and increased by
11.49 per cent to reach 103.91 per cent by April 2015.
In May 2014, it moved up to 93.70 per
cent; 94.84 per cent in June and at the end of July, the figure declined
to 94.42 per cent.
In August, September and October, the figures moved to 95.20 per cent, 96.08 per cent and 96.87 per cent, respectively.
In November and December, the telephony penetration increased to 97.60 per cent and 99.39 per cent, respectively.
The teledensity reached a 100.59 per
cent in January 2015, increased to 101.85 per cent in February, then to
102.81 per cent in the month of March 2015.
It was reported that the teledensity increased by 1.10 per cent to attain 103.91 per cent in April.
The proportional growth in teledensity showed that access to telephone services was getting deeper in the country.
NAN
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