Nigeria
In September 2012 the penetration rate was estimated at 70% over a population estimate of 155.2 million.
The country's telcom regulator is NCC.
All GSM operators in Nigeria have GPRS and EDGE implemented (part of GSM specs). MTN Nigeria was the largest mobile operator in Africa by subscriber numbers in Q2 2012.
| Rank | Operator | Technology | Subscribers |
Ownership |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MTN | GSM-900/1800 2100 MHz UMTS, HSDPA |
45.639 (Sept 2012) | MTN (76%) |
| 2 | Glo Mobile | GSM-900/1800 2100 MHz UMTS, HSDPA |
22.260 (Sept 2012) | Globacom |
| 3 | Airtel | GSM-900/1800 2100 MHz UMTS, HSDPA |
21.101 (Sept 2012) | Bharti Airtel (65.7%) |
| 4 | Etisalat | GSM-900/1800 2100 MHz UMTS, HSDPA |
14.392 (Sept 2012) | Etisalat, Mubadala, Nigerian Investors |
| 5 | Visafone | CDMA2000 1X | 2.323 (Sept 2012) | Visafone |
| 6 | Multilinks Telkom | CDMA2000 1X | 0.411 (Sept 2012) | Telkom (75%) |
| 7 | Starcomms | CDMA2000 1X | 0.393 (Sept 2012) | Starcomms |
| 9 | Mtel | GSM-900/1800 | 0.258 (Sept 2012) | State-owned Nitel |
| 8 | Zoom | CDMA | 0.111 (Sept 2012) | Reliance Telecoms |
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