Nigerians spent N223bn talking on telephone in 2012 – NCC

Nigerians spent N223 billion or about N22.3 billion minutes talking on telephone in 2012, according to information provided by a global consulting firm, Price- WaterHouseCooper (PwC). This figure was attributed to the over 110 million active telecoms subscribers both on GSMand CDMA networks in the country. According to the PwC, Nigeria’s outgoing and incoming on-net and off net calls totaled 22.3 billion minutes in 2012, while 1.8 billion text, SMS, messages were recorded within the same period.

According to the breakdown of the data from PwC, in 2011, minutes of calls for outgoing on-net; outgoing off-net to mobile; outgoing off-net to fixed networks; outgoing off-net to international networks; outgoing calls to voicemail; outgoing inbound roaming calls stood at 7.3 billion; four billion; 288 million; 315 million; 29 million and three million respectively. Apparently, these figures, in 2012,increased to 10.2 billion; 4.7 billion; 352 million; 403 million; 10 million and three million. On the incoming calls during the period, minutes of incoming calls from other mobile operators increased from 3.9 billion to 4.6 billion; calls from fixed operators increased from 472 million to 537million; calls from International operators into the country movedup from 745 million to 877 million; while inbound roaming increased slightly from two million to three million.

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