Glo’s Steady Network Upgrade Attracts New Users

The consistent network upgrade by the digital transformational leader, Globacom, has paid off with the giant telecommunications company recording the highest number of subscribers in the industry in February 2019.
Globacom, while responding to the new NCC release on its website, has attributed its growing subscriber base to its consistent network upgrade, leading to overall increase in quality of service.

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC recorded that the company gained 400,879 subscribers to top the gainers’ table for the month under review.

It was followed by 9mobile, which gained 345,264 subscribers to take the second spot on the table, just as Airtel took the third spot on the gainers’ table by attracting only 4,559 new users in the month of February 2019.

On its part, MTN suffered a massive loss of 1,099,480 subscribers in the month under review. With the latest NCC statistics, Globacom has narrowed the gap between it and MTN and widened its lead over Airtel and 9mobile.

According to the report, Globacom now has 46,004,517 customers against Airtel’s 44,975,532. Globacom leads the third largest operator by 1,028,985 subscribers in February. In January Glo had 632,665 users more than Airtel, as the figure for the two operators stood at 45,603,638 for Globacom  and 44,970,973 for Airtel. While Globacom grew by 0.87% in February, Airtel grew by 0.01% in the same month.

9mobile’s subscriber base stood at 16,730,581 in February, after adding 345,264 subscribers (2.1%) to its base of 16,385,317 in January. While Glo led 9mobile by 29,218,321 subscribers in January, the gap widened to a 29,273,936 in February 2019.

Globacom has been experiencing a steady positive growth for several months. In the month of November 2018, the network ramped up  1,691,133 customers within one month to gross  43,273,188 subscribers by the end of that month from the 41,582,055 subscribers it had at the end of October 2018.

This further increased to 45,255,297 in December 2018 and 45,603,638 in January 2019.

Reacting to the development, Globacom attributed its growing subscriber base to its consistent network upgrade strides and commitment to improvement in network infrastructure, leading to overall increase in quality of service.