AIRTEL NOW THE SECOND LARGEST TELECOM NETWORK IN NIGERIA.

Airtel, the leading global telecommunications services
provider with operations in 20 countries across Africa and Asia,
has further consolidated its market position in Nigeria,
demonstrating return on investment for the company in Africa’s
largest operation.

Fresh statistics from Nigerian Communications Commission
(NCC), the market regulator, show a continued growth trajectory
placing Airtel as the second largest telecommunications services
provider in terms of customers. This means that Airtel has now
leapfrogged Glo to second largest network by customer numbers.
Nigeria, as at February 2014 recorded total
customer number of 26, 194, 336.00 while Glo, MTN and Etisalat
finished at 24, 490, 650.00, 57, 183, 745.00 and 18,119,397.00,
respectively.
Congratulating the team, Christian de Faria, Airtel Africa CEO, said:
“This is a remarkable feat for Airtel, demonstrating that our
investments, aimed at ensuring a superior experience for our
customers in Nigeria, are bearing fruit. It is also a clear indication
of the trust that a growing sector of the population have started to
have in us.”
He added: “This achievement has not come easy and I must
congratulate the Airtel team in Nigeria. Nigeria continues to be a
very competitive telecoms market and our intention is to ensure
that we continue to innovate and make life easier for our
customers.”
The findings by NCC have corroborated independent research from
Credit Suisse, a global financial-services group, which in July last
year showed that Airtel’s market share has improved markedly in
Nigeria growing by 21.3 percent, in the ten months leading to April
2013. Importantly, Credit Suisse noted that Airtel has the
advantage of growing its market share using the existing,
unutilized capacity on its network.”
Airtel Nigeria’s Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, Segun
Ogunsanya, said: “The recent report from the NCC is a glowing
testimony to our collective commitment of delivering value to our
customers and also becoming the most loved brand in the daily
lives of Nigerians in line with our corporate vision. We are
extremely pleased that Nigerians are expressing confidence in our
network and we will continue to excite and delight them with
innovative and affordable mobile telecommunications solution.
“For us at Airtel Nigeria, this is, indeed, the beginning of a new
journey to reclaiming market leadership in the highly competitive
telecoms landscape and we are totally committed to our quest of
offering the best network experience as well as bespoke value
offerings,” he said.
Since the launch in 2010, Airtel has invested over $1.7bn dollars
to expand network capacity and deepen quality in Nigeria, in a bid
to achieve world-class service quality. The company’s launch of
its market-leading 3.75G service in March 2012 and the
subsequent roll-out, has offered unparalleled, high-speed mobile
Internet, across the 36 States of the Federation and the Federal
Capital Territory in Abuja.