222M Nigerians Used Telephones In 2022 – NBS

The National Bureau of Statistics has come out to reveal that a total of 222.6 million telephone subscribers were in Nigeria as at end of 2022.

The bureau recently disclosed this in its Telecoms Data: Active Voice and Internet per State, Porting and Tariff Information report for the last quarter of 2022, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to the data, there was an increase of 27.1 million subscribers over the 195.5 million subscribers recorded at the end of 2021, and the figure for the last quarter of 2022 represented a 13.87 per cent rise in voice subscriptions on a year-on-year basis.

The report also showed a total of 154.9 million active internet subscribers at the end of 2022 compared to 142 million recorded at the end of 2021.

WOW.