How MTN, 9Mobile’s national roaming service trial will benefit Nigerian users

• NCC announced a three-month National Roaming Service experimentation starting connected August 1, 2020, involving MTN Nigeria and 9Mobile (EMTS)
• The extremity of the experimentation is to beforehand web assets sharing betwixt operators and improving superior and operational efficiency
• Successful implementation volition let EMTS subscribers to entree MTN services wrong the proceedings country without needing an MTN SIM card

Legit.ng writer Zainab Iwayemi has 5-year-experience covering the Economy, Technology, and Capital Market.

The National Roaming Service experimentation volition beryllium conducted by 2 mobile web operators (MNOs) for a duration of 3 months, starting connected August 1, 2020, and ending connected October 31, 2020, according to the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).

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According to a connection by the NCC, Mobile Telecommunication Network (MTN) Nigeria and Emerging Markets Telecommunication Service Limited (EMTS), which operates nether the 9Mobile marque successful Nigeria, are the 2 telecom providers selected for this experiment.

Following this permission, EMTS and MTN are expected to acceptable up their networks to statesman lawsuit acquisition investigating and simulation.

A fewer section governments successful Ondo State, classified arsenic portion of the National Roaming geographic area, are covered by the proceedings approval.

Roaming services let a mobile subscriber to automatically marque and person dependable calls, nonstop and person data, oregon entree different services erstwhile traveling extracurricular a circumstantial network’s geographic area, by utilising the web sum of different networks that person roaming arrangements.

The main extremity of the National Roaming Service experiment, according to Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the NCC, is to beforehand web assets sharing among operators.

This volition effect successful efficiencies successful superior expenditure (CAPEX) and operational expenditure (OPEX), freeing up funds to widen mobile web sum to underserved and unserved communities nationwide, frankincense enhancing subscribers' Quality of Service (QoS).

“The palmy implementation of the proceedings volition alteration EMTS subscribers to entree MTN web services within the National Roaming proceedings geographical country without the request for an MTN Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) card,” Danbatta said.

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9mobile suffers arsenic Nigerians power to MTN

Legit.ng reported that according to the Nigerian Communications Commission's (NCC) astir caller Mobile Number Portability (MNP) statistics, MTN Nigeria leads the industry successful inward porting (incoming telecom subscribers), with 3,960 subscribers arsenic of April 2025.

ThisDay analysed that MTN is followed by Airtel, which, arsenic of April 2025, reported 1,860 inward portings, and Globacom, which reported 966 inward portings. Only 3 inward portings were reported by 9mobile, the past institution to participate the GSM market. This means that 6,789 telecom users participated successful inward porting overall.

However, erstwhile it comes to outward porting, 9mobile had the astir telecom users permission its network, with 5,042 successful total. Globacom came successful 2nd with 1,233 outward portings, and Airtel had 295 outward portings. As of April 2025, MTN reported that 219 subscribers had been outported.

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