The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on Tuesday said that 29,756 mobile number porting were recorded in the month of February, 2015.
This is contained in the ”Incoming and Outgoing Porting Activities of Mobile Network Operators” report in Lagos.
The report showed that there was an increase of 2,932 in the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) activities in the month of February, as against the 26,824 recorded in January.
It said that of the 29,756 porting activities in February, 24,955 were incoming porting activities, while 14,801 were outgoing activities.
The report revealed that in the outgoing table, telecommunications giant, MTN Nigeria, lost a total of 6,951 subscribers to other networks through the MNP in February.
According to the report, MTN is the worst hit during the exercise, followed by Airtel Nigeria which lost 3,655 customers in the month under review.
The report said Globacom lost a total of 2,570 subscribers, while 1,625 customers of Etisalat Nigeria ported to other networks within the same period.
However, in the incoming table, the report said Etisalat enjoyed the exercise most as it led with an additional 9,187 customers on its network in February.
Airtel came second on the gainers’ list, as it added 2,758 subscribers to its customer strength.
Also on the gainers’ list, 1,532 subscribers moved to the Globacom network, while MTN Nigeria gained 1,478 customers as well in February 2015.
The exercise was flagged off on April 22, 2013 by the NCC, with the aim of deepening competition in the industry.
Meanwhile, the NCC also revealed that active lines in the nation’s telecommunications industry increased to 142,589,775 in February.
The lines increased by 1,766,938 on the 140,275,599 numbers recorded in the month of January.
According to the data, of the 142,589,775 active numbers, the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) networks service 140,275,599 subscribers, as against the 138,530,830 customers recorded in January, hence, having an increase of 1,744,769.
The Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) operators, who had 2,108,960 active users in January, added 21,946, thereby recording 2,130,906 subscribers in February.
Also, the subscribers’ data showed that the Fixed Wired/Wireless networks’ consumers increased to 183,270 in February, after adding 223 to the 183,047 subscribers recorded in January.
The data also showed that the connected lines in the telecom operators’ networks decreased from 192,107,641 in January to 190,575,684 in February, thereby decreasing by 1,531,957.
From the total connected lines, the GSM operators were able to connect 186,410,917 in February; hence decreasing their connected numbers by 1,536,480 from the 187,947,397 numbers recorded in January.
The CDMA networks had an extra of 2,260 to the 3,794,491 connected lines in January, leaving them with 3,796,751 connected phone numbers in February.
The Fixed Wired/Wireless operators, with 365,753 connected numbers in January, added 2,263; thereby increasing to 368,016 connected lines in February.
Also, the data revealed that the Tele-density of the country’s telecommunications industry increased to 101.85 per cent in February, from the 100.59 per cent in January.
NAN reports that there is an increase of 1.26 per cent in the Tele-density attained in February.
The Tele-density measures the percentage of a country’s population with access to telecommunications services, as determined by the subscriber base.
Nigeria’s Tele-density is currently calculated by the NCC on a population of 140 million people.
