Nigeria’s national carrier Globacom, has consolidated its leadership in the provision of high quality data services in the country.
The latest figures released by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) reconfirmed its lead in new internet subscriber acquisition in the telecommunications industry. This makes Glo’s network the preferred choice for internet services for subscribers.
In the latest report released on its website, NCC indicated that Globacom gained the highest number of internet users last September with over a million new 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 who joined the three other major telecom operators, MTN, Airtel and Etisalat. The three recorded a combined total of 716,450 new internet subscribers in September.
A breakdown of the NCC data showed that Globacom recorded an increase in its internet subscriber base in the last quarter of last year. The network had 23,285,454 internet users in October, 24,952,559 in November and 25,082,066 in December, which is an addition of 3.2million new internet subscribers in the quarter.
Conversely, MTN, Airtel and Etisalat all lost data subscribers within the period. MTN which had 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, a loss of almost two million customers.
Similarly, 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 same 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.
That Globacom was the only network that grew its data subscriber base in the last quarter is an indication of its improved internet service delivery. In the last one year, Globacom invested massively 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.
The network also offers several attractive and affordable internet packages which have a lot of appeal to data users. These include FreeTomorrow, Bumper Data, Campus Booster, Twin Bash, Weekend and Night packages.
Free Tomorrow 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 midnight with the value, while 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 megabytes (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 just dialing *223*pin#. The Twin Bash offer is also available on the N500, N1000 and N5000 data recharge plans.
