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The internet users increased marginally to 98.3million in November, the Nigerian Communications Commission, has said.<\/p>\n

The NCC made this disclosure in its Monthly Internet Subscribers Data for December 2017 on its website on Thursday in Abuja.<\/p>\n

According to the data, Airtel, MTN, and Glo gained more internet subscribers during the month in review while 9mobile was the big loser.<\/p>\n

The data also showed that overall, internet users increased by 98,391,456 in December from 94, 818,553 in November showing an increase 3, 572,903.<\/p>

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The data breakdown revealed that MTN gained the most with 2,642.666, new internet users increasing its subscription in December to 36,069,597, from 33,426,931 in November.<\/p>\n

It showed that 9mobile lost 68,341 internet users in December decreasing its subscription to 11,338.839 as against November when it recorded 11,407,180.<\/p>\n

It said Airtel gained\u00a0the most with 911,040 new internet users in December amounting to 23,985.203 users as against 23,074,163 users in November.<\/p>\n

The data showed that Globacom also gained 87,538 new users in December as the figure recorded was 26,997,817 as against 26,910,279\u00a0 in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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