<p style="text-align: justify;">The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has said the number of mobile telephone lines in Nigeria stood at 222,695,990 at the end of August.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In the August edition of its monthly publication &ldquo;Subscriber Data&rsquo;&rsquo;, NCC stated that in July, the number of lines was 222,440,207 an increased by 255,783 lines in August.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">According to the data, Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network services in August rose to 222,695,990 compared to July which had 222,440,207.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) operators had 3,608,272 active users in August, indicating a decline of 3,654 from 3,611,926 customers recorded in July.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The report also revealed that connected Fixed Wired/Wireless networks&rsquo; consumers increased to 349, 185 in August, rising by 252 consumers from the July figure of 348, 933.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">It showed that Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) had 32, 925 in August as against 19, 420 in July, representing an increase of 13, 505.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">For Tele-density of the country&rsquo;s telecommunications industry, it indicated an increase of 109.14 per cent in August from 107.33 per cent in the preceding month.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">NAN reports that Tele-density statistics measure the percentage of a country&rsquo;s population with access to telecommunication services as determined from subscribers&rsquo; data.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The Nigeria Tele-density is currently calculated on 140 million population by NCC, using the 2006 Census figures.&nbsp;</p>