The May market share report from the National Communications Authority (NCA) has revealed over ten thousand subscribers of Expresso abandoned the network; making it the only telco that recorded a decline in subscriber base.
It declined by about 7 percent dropping from 154,207 to 143,379 subscribers.
This also shrunk its market share from 0.54percent to 0.49percent.
The report also indicated that the number of voice subscribers in Ghana increased from 28.8million to 29.1million.
Airtel recorded 2,700 new subscribers, which was the least recorded among the other four telcos. Its market share also dropped from 12.15 per cent to 12.04 per cent. Airtel currently has a subscriber base of a little over 3.5million.
Tigo followed after adding about 4,300 new subscribers.
Its market share however shrunk from 14.01pernt to 13.89 percent. Its total number of subscribers is a little above 4million.
Glo, for the first time in a long time recorded some recovery. It recorded about 26,000 new additions in May. This pushed its market share from 4.68pecent to 4.72 percent.
Its total number of subscribers is a little below 1.4million.
Vodafone continued its increasing streak after adding about 88,000 new subscribers to its 6.6million subscribers. Its market share increased marginally to 23.1.
Total number of subscribers was 6.7 million at the end of May.
Market leader, MTN gained the most subscribers. It increased by about 177,000.
This shot up its subscriber base to 13.3million from 13.1million.
Its market share also increased from 45.6percent to 45.7percent.
Business World (with notes from citifmonline)