MTN Nigeria has emerged as the dominant player in Nigeria’s fibre internet market, but its growing lead masks a bigger problem: fixed broadband remains a tiny part of the country’s internet market.
Data from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) for June 2026 shows MTN had 176,468 Fibre-To-The-x (FTTx) subscribers, customers connected to the internet through fibre cables that run directly to homes, offices, or buildings. That gave MTN 55.2% of Nigeria’s 319,735 FTTx connections. The operator’s fibre subscriber base has also nearly doubled since January, rising 97.3% from 89,441 to 176,468.
But the size of the overall market puts that growth in perspective.
Nigeria had 156.4 million mobile internet subscribers in June, compared with just 319,735 FTTx subscribers. Taken together, the two categories amount to about 156.8 million internet subscriptions, meaning FTTx accounted for roughly 0.2% of the total.
Originally published by TechCabal.