Vodafone recorded one of its worst declines ever after losing about 387,600 data subscribers in the month of August.<\/p>\n
The telecom giant lost a little under 88,000 subscribers in the previous month July.\u00a0This was revealed in the monthly data market share report from the National Communication Authority (NCA).<\/p>\n
The month of August was not a good month for Vodafone as it lost about 61,000 voice subscribers while data subscriber base declined significantly by about 16%.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”ckqMPotKFEV4LKF67RZepM2zdL2O8Em2″]Having lost about 387,600 subscribers, Vodafone\u2019s data market share reduced from 16.6% to 14.2%. Its total number of subscribers stood at a little below 2.1million.<\/p>\n
Also, Expresso lost about 1,100 data subscribers representing a 3% decline in its subscriber base but maintained its market share at 0.25%. Expresso\u2019s had about 36,000 subscribers at the end of August.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, Glo led the list of gainers with 86,000 additional subscribers. This shot up its subscriber base by about 17% and market share from 3.4% to 4%. Glo had about 590,000 data subscribers at the end of August.<\/p>\n
Tigo\u2019s data subscriber base increased by about 2.8% having recorded about 56,000 additions.\u00a0Its market share increased to 14.4% measuring about 2.1million subscribers.<\/p>\n
MTN followed closely having recorded about 53,000 additional subscribers. This shot up MTN\u2019s market share to about 53.1% which measures about 7.8million subscribers.<\/p>\n
Airtel however recorded 37,000 additional subscribers in August representing an increase of its data subscriber base of about 1.8%.<\/p>\n
This shot up its market share to 14.1% representing a little below 2.1million subscribers.<\/p>\n
Mobile Data Penetration in Ghana at the end of August stood at about 55%.<\/p>\n
The total number of subscription went down by about 156,000 re In general data subscription declined by about 1%.<\/p>\n
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By: Anim Kwaku Boadu\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n
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