Ranked Data · NCC · March 2026
Nigeria's telco market share.
The NCC's March 2026 historical table reports 185,718,018 active telephony subscriptions and 85.67% teledensity. Of these, 185,506,748 are GSM subscriptions. The figures cover connections, which may include multiple SIMs held by one person.
Reporting period: March 2026. Original publication date: not stated. Retrieved and checked: 2026-09-08. The live NCC table also contains later months; this page deliberately identifies its historical period.
GSM operators by subscriptions
Counts are the NCC's published March rows. Shares are calculated by Ranked as each count ÷ 185,506,748 × 100, rounded to two decimals. Size does not establish service quality, speed or coverage.
| Operator | GSM subscriptions | Calculated share |
|---|---|---|
| MTN | 95,759,210 | 51.62% |
| Airtel | 63,629,101 | 34.30% |
| Globacom | 22,639,893 | 12.20% |
| T2 (formerly 9mobile) | 3,478,544 | 1.88% |
Subscription share by generation
These percentages are transcribed from the NCC's “Market Share by Generation” March column. They do not measure browsing sessions.
- 2G
- 36.74%
- 3G
- 5.30%
- 4G
- 53.76%
- 5G
- 4.20%
Sources and measurement notes
Retrieved and checked: . Subscription counts, teledensity and generation percentages are transcribed from the NCC's March 2026 column. GSM operator shares are calculated by Ranked as operator subscriptions divided by the published GSM total, times 100, rounded to two decimals.
- NCC Industry Statistics, historical March 2026 columns
Publication date: not stated for this edition. The live historical tables do not state when the March 2026 column was first published; 15 March 2026 is not a verified publication date.
Where to check: Active Telephony Subscriptions: Mar'26 subscriptions and teledensity rows; Market Share (GSM): Mar'26 operator rows and TOTAL; Market Share by Generation: Mar'26 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G rows.
- All active telephony subscriptions (185,718,018) include GSM, fixed wired and VoIP; GSM subscriptions alone total 185,506,748. Operator market shares use the GSM denominator.
- Subscriptions are connections, not unique people. Generation shares describe subscriptions, not browsing sessions or geographic coverage.
- The NCC currently labels the former 9mobile series T2. Historical columns on this live page can be revised; this is the version retrieved on 8 September 2026.
Correction, 8 September 2026: earlier figures conflated total and GSM subscriptions, misstated teledensity and the 2G/3G split, and attached an unverified publication date. Unsupported growth, movement and operator-quality claims have been removed.