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Telecom giant, MTN led the pack of telcos in gaining data subscribers in the month of October.<\/p>\n
\nMTN made about 135,000 new subscribers shooting its base by about 1.7%.<\/p>\n
\nThis shot up its market share marginally to 51% representing a little below 8million subscribers.<\/p>\n
\nThis is contained in the market share report from the National Communications Authority (NCA) for the month of October 2014.
\nGenerally, the data market growth slowed down to about 1.6% from a rate of 5.4% recorded in the previous month, September.<\/p>\n
\nFollowing MTN\u2019s lead, Vodafone recorded a highest growth rate of 4% after it added about 105,000 new data subscribers.<\/p>\n
\nThis pushed its market share to a little above 17% represented by 2.7million subscribers.<\/p>\n
\nWith a little below 26,000 new data subscribers, Airtel followed the title race.<\/p>\n
\nThis shot up its subscriber base to a little above 2.1million subscribers which represents about 13.6% of the market share.<\/p>\n
\nGlo followed with about 19,500 new subscribers shooting it data subscriber base by about 3%.<\/p>\n
\nWith about 681,000 subscribers, Glo commands about 4.4% of the market share.<\/p>\n
\nExpresso and Tigo however recorded declines in subscriber base.<\/p>\n
\nTigo lost about 2% of its base which represents a little over 45,000.<\/p>\n
\nThis reduced its market share from 13.9% to 13.4%. Tigo now has a little above 2.1 million data subscribers.<\/p>\n
\nExpresso continued its losing streak shedding about a 1000 data subscriber.<\/p>\n
\nThe decline represents about 3% decline of its base which is now about 32,000.<\/p>\n
\nExpresso has the least market share of about 0.2%.<\/p>\n
\nMobile Data penetration is still relatively low at just about 58.7% with a population of about 26.7million people.<\/p>\n
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By: Anim Kwaku Boadu\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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