Glo claims biggest Internet subscriber growth in 2020
Telecommunications Company, Globacom, has recorded a major leap in its Internet subscriber base with a 39 per cent growth in 2020. Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), on its website, showed that the telecommunications sector grew by 22 per cent with 28,145,458 new Internet users from 125,728,328 at the end of December 2019 to 153,873,786 in December 2020.
The NCC statistics indicated that the telecoms sector was pivotal to the early escape of the country from its recent economic recession with a contribution of 12.45 per cent to its Gross Domestic Product (GDP).Globacom recorded the highest subscriber growth from 28,934,439 data users at the end of 2019 to 40,106,659 at the end of 2020, an addition of 11,172,220 new data subscribers or 39 per cent growth. This is more than ...