Cellular mobile data operators

The total number of subscribers of mobile data in the country rose to 19,331,239 as of the end of September this year.

This represented a penetration rate of 69.22 per cent as posted by the National Communications Authority (NCA), the industry regulator.

The figure for September is as against the 19,125,469 subscribers recorded in August the same year.

Cellular mobile data operators

In the period under review, MTN’s mobile data subscribers shot up to 9,745,986 as against the August figure of 9,608,952. By that, the company’s market share for the month of September stood at 50.42 per cent as against 50.24 per cent in the previous month.

This is a clear indication that MTN controls more than half of the market as against all the players put together in the industry.

Vodafone followed with a mobile data subscriber number of 3,314,912 in September. Although it increased marginally from 3,301,319 in August, the company’s to