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Mobile is Booming
The largest mobile phone market on the continent
The introduction of mobile telephony to Nigeria in 2001 radically altered the country’s communications landscape. From a base of 0.73% teledensity in 2001, the country as of August 2008 had reached 39.45% teledensity, calculated on the basis of active subscribers. Judged by installed capacity, the figure was closer to 70% in August 2008, and according to the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) had risen to 80% by October 2008. This phenomenal growth was driven by mobile telephony: in August 2008, Nigeria had 54’082’529 active mobile subscriptions, as compared to just 1’152’517 active fixed-line subscriptions.In 2007, the country passed out South Africa as the continent’s largest mobile phone market. Nigeria’s mobile subscriber base is projected to rise to 79.8 million by 2010.
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