There were 222.6 million telephone subscribers in Nigeria as of the end of 2022, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said.
The 2022 figure showed an increase of 27.1 million subscribers over the 195.5 million subscribers recorded at the end of 2021.
The NBS stated the figures in its Telecoms Data: Active Voice and Internet per State, Porting, and Tariff Information report for the last quarter of 2022, released in Abuja on Monday.
The report showed that the figure for the last quarter of 2022 represented a 13.87 percent rise in voice subscriptions on a year-on-year basis.
On a quarter-on-quarter basis, the report showed growth of 4.89 percent.
The NBS also recorded a total of 154.9 million active internet subscribers at the end of 2022, compared to 142 million recoded at the end of 2021.
“This represents a 9.07 percent increase in active internet subscriptions year-on-year, while on a quarter-on-quarter basis, internet subscriptions grew by 1.35 percent,’’ it stated.
On a state-by-state analysis, the report showed that Lagos State had the highest number of active telephone users in 2022 at 26.5 million, followed by Ogun with 13 million users.
Kano State came in third with 12.4 million telephone users.
The report showed that Bayelsa had the least number of telephone users at 1.6 million subscribers, followed by Ebonyi and Ekiti with 1.9 million users and two million users, respectively.
It also showed that Lagos State had the highest number of internet users at 18.7 million subscribers, followed by Ogun with 9.2 million subscribers and Kano State with 8.5 million subscribers.
“On the other hand, Bayelsa recorded the least number of internet users at 1.1 million, followed by Ebonyi and Ekiti with 1.3 million and 1.5 million subscribers, respectively,’’ it stated.
The NBS report showed that the majority of telephone users in Nigeria in 2022 were MTN subscribers.
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