Cell phone companies in Nigeria

Nigeria > Telecommunications

In June 2011 the penetration rate was estimated at 54% over a population estimate of 155.2 million.
The country's telcom regulator is NCC.
All GSM operators in Nigeria have GPRS and EDGE implemented (part of GSM specs).

Rank Operator Technology Subscribers [124]
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 MTN GSM, HSDPA 40.540 (Q2 2011) MTN (76%)
2 Glo Mobile GSM, HSDPA 19.488 (Q2 2011) Globacom
3 Airtel GSM, HSDPA 15.969 (Q2 2011) Bharti Airtel (65.7%)
4 Etisalat GSM, HSDPA 7.835 (Q2 2011) Etisalat, Mubadala, Nigerian Investors
5 Visafone CDMA2000 1X 2.596 (Q2 2011) Visafone
6 Starcomms CDMA2000 1X 1.154 (Q2 2011) Starcomms
7 Multilinks Telkom CDMA2000 1X 0.974 (Q2 2011) Telkom (75%)
8 Zoom[disambiguation needed ] CDMA 0.833 (Q2 2011) Reliance Telecoms
9 Mtel GSM 0.258 (Q2 2011) State-owned Nitel

Source: Wikipedia

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