According to the Nigerian communications commission, NCC, 2021 annual report and accounts for the year, the restriction on subscriber identity modules and sim registration in 2020 cost Nigeria over nine million data subscribers in 2021.
Active telecom subscribers dropped by 4.67 percent from 204,601,313 subscribers in December 2020 to 195,463,898 subscribers in December 2021, according to the study released recently.
Active internet subscriptions dropped by 7.99 percent from 154,301,185 to 141,971,560, while broadband subscriptions fell by 9.19 percent from 45.02 percent to 40.88 percent in 2021.