{"id":106594,"date":"2015-04-08T19:10:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T19:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=106594"},"modified":"2015-04-08T19:10:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T19:10:04","slug":"nca-rectifies-telcos-january-market-share-blunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=106594","title":{"rendered":"NCA rectifies telcos January market share blunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Communications Authority (NCA) says it has rectified the January 2015 voice and data market share figures after it turned out the figures published were incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;zg541g1Nu7h89P21Rh1mMnn7uOmMPY9d&#8221;]The figures which were published on the NCA&#8217;s website placed Glo ahead of the other networks in data subscription for the month of January.<\/p>\n<p>It also placed Expresso ahead of all the other networks in voice subscription in the month of January.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the rectification figures from NCA Glo suggested that Glo gained 1.44 million new data customers, from 668,424 in December 2014 to 2,091,600 in January 2015 while Expresso&#8217;s voice subscription also increased by 155,491 from 119,059 to 274,550.<\/p>\n<p>Other telcos like Vodafone and Airtel also saw a drop in their market share due to the anomaly.<\/p>\n<p>NCA in the case of Vodafone had indicated that the subscriber base increased to 7,177,032 at the end of January as compared to December\u2019s figure of 7,069,516.<\/p>\n<p>However, in quoting the market share, the regulator presented a drop from 23.29% in December 2014 to 21.97% in January.<\/p>\n<p>But the NCA reacting to the error said it noticed that in the course of publishing the January 2015 Voice and Data Market Statistics, incorrect data was inadvertently published.<\/p>\n<p>It adds that the error was swiftly rectified and the correct information was published on the NCA\u2019s website last week Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\nBy: Vivian Kai Lokko\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Communications Authority (NCA) says it has rectified the January 2015 voice and data market share figures after it turned out the figures published were incorrect. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;zg541g1Nu7h89P21Rh1mMnn7uOmMPY9d&#8221;]The figures which were published on the NCA&#8217;s website placed Glo ahead of the other networks in data subscription for the month of January. It also placed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":63742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[20,4],"class_list":["post-106594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-mental-health-authority","tag-st-augustines-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}