Nigerians Spent N192billion On Data Subscription.

Good day every one.

I was not surprised when I heard that Nigerians spent a whopping 172billion naira on data consumption.

According to Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) report, it shows that MTN, Glo, 9mobile, Airtel and other operators have a total active subscribers base of 149.3 million. Hmm

The latest monthly subscriber data released last month by the regulator showed that

MTN had 58,121,427 users 

Glo had 37,270,100 users

Airtel had 34,336,802 users and 9mobile had 19,621,806 users.

Meanwhile, the remaining figures was also shared between the other minor operators. But out of the 149.5 million subscribers, only 92 million are currently active internet users.

In June 2017, 

MTN had 31.7 million internet users, Glo 27.2m, 

Airtel 20.2m and

9mobile 12.6m and the remaining figures was also shared to the minor operators.

About 

70% or 64m of internet users used up to 1000naira data monthly, 

15% or 13.8m users purchase an average of 3000naira data monthly, 10% or 9.15m of users used 5000naira data monthly and 

5% or 4.6m buy 10,000naira data each, increasing the GSM and mobile internet companies’ revenue by N46bn.

This is really not appealing at all, this hug amount of money spent on data.

What your say?