Knowledge consumption by Nigerian telecom subscribers jumped to a complete of 1.04 million terabytes in Might 2025, even because the nation’s web subscriptions declined.
In response to the most recent business information launched by the Nigerian Communications Fee (NCC), the Might information consumption determine got here as the best month-to-month report since January 2023, when the telecom regulator began publishing the info.
Within the previous month of April, information consumption stood at 983,283 terabytes, whereas the closest to the Might determine was recorded in January 2025 at 1 million terabytes.
In the meantime, telecom operators proceed to see a decline within the variety of energetic web subscriptions as Nigerians alter to the current 50% worth increment applied by all telecom operators within the nation.
Whole energetic subscriptions throughout the 4 cell networks additionally declined barely in Might, dropping 172.4 million from 172.6 million recorded in Might.
Nonetheless, the decline was pushed by solely two operators: MTN and 9mobile. Whereas MTN stays the biggest operator by subscriber quantity, its energetic subscriptions declined by 258,313 to 90.2 million from 90.5 million in April.
In the meantime, with the slight decline in actively linked traces recorded by the operators, the nation’s teledensity, which measures the variety of energetic phone connections per 100 inhabitants residing inside an space, additionally declined to 79.65% from 79.78% recorded in April.
In response to NCC, the teledensity is calculated primarily based on a inhabitants estimate of 216 million.
