More than 97 million subscribers who surf the Internet in the country depend on digital mobile operators deploying the Global System for Mobile communications technology, the Nigerian Communications Commission has said.
The NCC, which disclosed in the Information Memorandum on the proposed auctioning of 2.6GHz frequency spectrum, also listed several sectors of the economy that required broadband services in order to boost the firms’ offering to consumers.
According to the regulatory agency, only a very little segment of Internet subscription in the country is catered for by technologies other than GSM.
It stated, “Nigeria currently has growing levels of Internet take-up, personal computer penetration and broadband adoption. The trend of Internet use in Nigeria shows an increase with the overall number of users rising from 1.4 per cent of population in 2004 to about 47.8 per cent by 2014, with broadband penetration at about 10 per cent in 2015. Access to PC in Nigeria was estimated at 8.1 per cent of the population in 2013.
“As of December 2015, the total active Internet subscriptions for all market segments was 97,193,247. There was a steady growth in the number of active Internet subscriptions from December 2012 to December 2015, and this growth was primarily driven by the growth in the mobile GSM market segment. The mobile GSM market segment accounted for 97,032,543 of the total active Internet subscriptions.”
The regulatory authority listed government services that required adequate broadband Internet services to include the issuance of the national identity card, driver licence and registration of companies, among many others.
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