A new telecom industry report has once again confirmed Globacom as the fastest growing internet solutions provider in the country.
This confirmation was contained in a new statistics of internet subscriptions of the four major service providers for the last quarter of 2015.
The report showed that Globacom was the only operator that recorded an increase in its internet subscriber base in the last quarter of 2015.
Globacom, according to the data, had 23,285,454 internet users in October, 24,952,559 in November and 25,082,066 in December, which is an addition of 3.2m new internet subscribers in the quarter.
On the other hand, the trio of MTN, Airtel and Etisalat,lost internet subscribers within the period. MTN which recorded a total of 41,835,294 internet subscribers at the beginning of October 2015 had 39,924,737 data subscribers at the end of December, thereby losing about 2million customers.
Likewise, Airtel which began the quarter with 17,730,955 internet customers ended with 16,835,952, a loss of nearly 900,000 subscribers.
Etisalat also suffered the identical fate with MTN and Airtel as it lost 408,282 internet customers, having begun the quarter with 15,598,070 data and ended it with 15,189,788.
In a previous industry report released last month, Globacom gained the highest number of internet users in September of 2015 with over a million new internet users on its network, up from 20,765,379 data users in August to 21,896,229 data users the following month. The figure showed an addition of 1,130,850 new internet subscribers which was much more than the total number of new internet users that joined the three other major telecom operators – MTN, Airtel and Etisalat, which collectively recorded 716,450 new internet subscribers in the month under review.
That Globacom grew its data subscriber base in the last quarter under reviewwas due to its improved internet service delivery. In the last one year, Globacom announced that it had invested heavily to significantly upgrade its data network. The upgrade was complemented by its extensive nationwide optic fibre infrastructure linked to its Glo 1 submarine cable which connects Nigeria to Europe, America and the rest of the world.
Besides the upgrade, the network also offers several attractive and affordable internet packages which have a lot of appeal to data users. These include Free Tomorrow, Bumper Data, Campus Booster, Twin Bash and Weekend and Night packages.
Free Tomorrow, for instance, calculates all the value of airtime a subscriber uses in a day for internet services, phone calls and SMS, doubles the value and credits the subscriber’s phone by 12 midnight with the value. On its own, Campus Booster is a special data plan that allows students and others on campus to get up to eight times more data value whenever they use their Glo lines on campuses.
In the Bumper Data Offer, subscribers get 1.5G for just N1000 and 4.5G for N2500. Similarly, a N3,000 data plan gives subscribers 6GB data valid for one month, while a N4000 data plan gives 9GB data plan valid for a month.
Also, Twin Bash offers subscribers the facility of recharging data directly from recharge cards in denominations of N200 to N5000. A customer who recharges with N200 gets 200 MB of data worth N800 and N200 worth of airtime free for voice calls. The Twin Bash recharge, which is the best deal for voice and data in Nigeria, can be subscribed to by dialing *223*pin#. The Twin Bash offer is also available on the N500, N1000 and N5000 data recharge plans.
