Nigeria’s web consumption surpassed 1 million terabytes for the primary time in January 2025, marking a significant milestone for the reason that Nigerian Communications Fee (NCC) started monitoring knowledge utilization in January 2023. This displays the nation’s growing reliance on digital connectivity and the rising demand for web companies.
Regardless of reaching this historic milestone, knowledge consumption in January 2025 totaled 27,475 terabytes, a pointy decline from 94,502 terabytes recorded in December 2024.
Terabytes (TB) are used to measure web consumption, indicating the amount of knowledge transmitted or obtained over a community. 1 Terabyte (TB) equals 1,000 Gigabytes (GB) or 1,000,000 Megabytes (MB)—a scale usually utilized by telecom suppliers to trace excessive knowledge utilization, notably amongst companies, streamers, and avid gamers.
The dip in month-to-month knowledge consumption may sign challenges for telecom operators like MTN Nigeria and Airtel Nigeria, which just lately elevated knowledge tariffs by 50%. Increased costs could discourage customers from consuming as a lot knowledge as earlier than, probably impacting income development.
Regardless of this, MTN and Airtel recorded vital web subscriber good points in January 2025. MTN added 1.4 million new customers, elevating its whole web subscriber base to 73.7 million. Airtel adopted carefully, gaining 1.08 million subscribers to succeed in 48.4 million.
Then again, Globacom continues to battle after a regulatory audit in April 2024 led to a major discount in its subscriber base. It added solely 313,939 customers in January 2025, whereas 9mobile failed to realize any new subscribers.