The National Communication Commission (NCC) statistics showed a drop in the number of telecom subscribers in Nigeria by 11.84 million in four months.
The report said the drop was as a result of the ongoing National Identity Number (NIN) registration and link to telecoms.
The report indicated that operators lost 4.13 million active subscribers in February 2021, with 195.73 million GSM users in the month.
The breakdown showed that Airtel with the highest number of subscribers in February, dropped by 1.99 million subscribers from 53.42 million subscribers in January to 51.43 million customers.
This was followed by MTN with a loss of 1.68 million subscribers.
Globacom lost 415,071 subscribers, recording a total of 54.17 million subscribers as against 54.59 million users in January, while 9mobile, which had 12.80 million users in January, lost 35,698 subscribers in February with a total of 12.77 million users.
