Globacom has emerged the second biggest Global System for Mobile Communications Company in Nigeria with 26 percent share of the telecoms market.
Industry statistics from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) showed that Globacom displaced Airtel, which now owns a 25 percent market share, in November 2018.
However, MTN Nigeria remains the biggest network provider in the country with 40 percent market share while the fourth mobile network operator, 9mobile, holds nine percent market share.
As at November 2018, Globacom had 154,034 more subscribers than Airtel.
There has been a struggle between the two major network operators in the country to clinch and sustain the position of the second biggest telco in Nigeria.
In the past 11 months, analysis of the data obtained from the NCC indicated that Airtel was the second largest telecoms service provider for five months intermittently.
The five months are January, February, August, September and October in 2018, according to the NCC data.
Globacom also hold the position as the second largest network provider by market share for six consecutive months in 2018.
According to the NCC subscriber data, the months are March, April, May, June, July and November.
