Number of inactive telephone lines in the telecommunications
industry stood at 44,647,096 in the first quarter of the year.
In the monthly subscriber data posted on the website of the
Nigerian Communications Commission, it was stated that the connected lines as
of March was 161,928,765, while the figure of the active lines was 117,281,669.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the inactive lines
were 38,518,699 in the last quarter of 2012.
NCC said that additional 6,128,397 lines were dormant, thus
raising the number to 44,647,096 in March.
The subscriber data showed that of the 44,647,096 inactive
telephone lines, Global System for Mobile communication networks had a total of
31,061,267.
Also, the mobile section of the Code Division Multiple Access
system had a total of 11,544,933 inactive lines, while the fixed wired/wireless
network had 2,040,896 dormant lines.
From the 117,281,669 active telephone lines on the operators’
networks in the first quarter, the GSM operators had a share of 114,172,440.
The CDMA had 2,703,604 active lines, while the fixed
wired/wireless networks had 405,625 subscribers.
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