MTN leads mobile phone usage with 76 percent

A recent discovery of the telecommunication sector has revealed that a higher percentage of Nigerians use two phone lines with 76 percent having MTN as their main line.

The result of the survey released by polling firm, NOI Polls, in Abuja on Tuesday showed that subscribers use two phone lines either registered under one network provider or under two different ones.

The firm explained that this trend has been “consistent from 2012 to 2014; however, a 5-point reduction in the proportion of Nigerians in this category was seen from 2012 to 2013 and 3-points increase in 2014.

“An assessment of the mobile network used by Nigerians placed MTN as the highest used network in the past two years (2012-2013) and even in the present times; although subscription to this provider has consistently declined within this period.

“Other networks used by Nigerians in the order of higher subscribers include; Airtel (45%), Etisalat (33%), Glo (28%) and Visafone (1%). In line with this, the proportion of Airtel subscribers which seemed steady from 2012 to 2013 at (39%), picked up by 6-points in 2014 (45%), thus, making it the only network that has seen a considerable growth in the proportion of its users. This increase may have been driven by the discovery of the cheaper tariffs offered by this network compared with other networks”.

More findings on the usage of phone lines revealed 15 percent of mobile network subscribers indicated Airtel as their main line, 5-percent indicated Glo, while 4-percent of subscribers use Etisalat as their main line.

NOI Polls noted that an assessment of the services provided by network providers revealed that a higher proportion (64%) of mobile phone users across all networks “are getting value for money from their main network provider through the ‘quality of network services’ (27%), ‘bonus offers’ (25%) and ‘cheaper tariff’  (23%) among others