Lagos State has continued to dominate the rant of being the state with the highest number of active telephone lines year-on-year.
According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), as of the end of 2022, whereas there were 222.6 million telephone subscribers in Nigeria, Lagos State took lead on state-by-state analysis with 26.5m active lines. The state is by Ogun with 13 million users.
Kano State came 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 1.1 million internet users, 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.
The 2022 figure revealed an increase of 27.1 million subscribers over the 195.5 million subscribers recorded at the end of 2021.
The NBS disclosed these 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 stood at 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 recorded 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 subscription grew by 1.35 percent,’’ it stated.
