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 Telecom operators in Nigeria shared a total of N201,765,068,295 spent by subscribers on buying data in the first quarter (Q1) of this year. According to April data released by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), there are 158,231,544 internet subscribers in the country. The total data usage as of March, 2023, was 562,960.57 Terabytes (TB), an equivalent of 576,471,623.70 Gigabytes at an average of rate of N350 per 1 gigabyte (GB). Though the price of data varied from one service provider to another, the NCC put the average price at N350 per GB in Nigeria. This was an aggregate of the total data generated by mobile network providers and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) as revealed by the NCC in its industry statistics. For the total data usage as of March 2023, there were 157,551,104 active subscribers for data (internet) services, indicating an increment from 156,989,223 as of January 2023 across all technologies. NCC indicated that the total number of active subscribers for data (internet) services on mobile devices as of March 2023, was 16,457, while the total number of active subscribers for data (internet) services on Fixed Wired devices within the period under review was 204,810.

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