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NCC says there's currently 93 million Internet users in Nigeria NCC says there

On Tuesday, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) announced that subscribers browsing the internet through its network increased to 93 million in September 2017 from 92.1 million the previous month.   The telecommunications industry regulator made the disclosure in its monthly internet subscribers’ data on its website saying available data showed a marginal increase of 815,764 subscribers during the period. The commission said that the data reflected internet users on both the Global System for Mobile (GSM) communications and the Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) networks and 92.97 million out of the 93 million internet users in September were on GSM network while 30,309 users were on the CDMA network.   The data showed that MTN had 32.5 million subscribers, browsing its network in the month under review as against 32.1 million in August, indicating an increase of 359,409 internet subscribers.  According to NCC, Globacom has 26.942 million cust...