Mobile Nigeria Forum

Here's some important information for statisticians or researchers

Mtel, the mobile arm of the Nigerian Tel-ecommunications Ltd now has 983,000 active subscribers on its network, the Chief Marketing Officer of the company, Mr Edwin Momife, has announced.

Speaking at a media forum, organised by XLR8 Communications Ltd to announce plans for the staging of a national conference on value-added services in Lagos last week, Momife noted that Mtel had repositioned itself to make a greater impact in the telecommunications sector.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200501241066.html
Their low cost model really isn't bad.  If only they knew the importance of SMS support.

Also interesting:

There are about 8 million telephone users in the country at present, according to official records obtained from the Nigerian Communications Commission. (NCC)

(daily trust)