Annual Operating Levy (AOL)
Telecom Companies
The Nigerian Telecommunications Industry tax net covers Mobile Network Operators, tower companies, Internet Service Providers, Value-Added Service providers, and other licensed telecom infrastructure providers. This is the working list 3RRAS maintains under its PPP/SPPPA mandate to monitor, calculate, collect and remit AOL, licence fees and associated government taxes.
Note: Compiled and maintained by 3RRAS under the SPPPA/PPP Agreement mandate to monitor, calculate, collect and remit government revenues across the Nigerian Telecommunications Industry — Mobile Network Operators, tower/collocation companies, Internet Service Providers, Value-Added Service providers, and other licensed telecom infrastructure providers. Most entries below are drawn directly from the Nigerian Communications Commission's public Individual Licence Register; because licence registers are point-in-time snapshots and licences lapse, merge or get revoked, treat this as a working reconciliation list rather than a live feed. Company names and logos remain the property of their respective owners.
Companies tracked
8 categories · 137+ licensees
Spanning the four national MNOs down to individual NCC-licensed VAS aggregators, tower operators and submarine cable consortia.
Sourced from official registers
126Confirmed
Drawn directly from NCC's public Individual Licence Register and press releases rather than popularity — see each category's source note. Registers are point-in-time snapshots; licences lapse, renew or get reassigned.
Mobile Network Operators (MNOs)
The four NCC-licensed national mobile network operators providing voice, data and mobile-money services.
Source: NCC Consumer Portal — Meet the Licensees
Infrastructure Companies (InfraCos)
NCC Open Access Model zonal licensees building and operating metropolitan fibre-optic backbone infrastructure across Nigeria's six geopolitical zones.
Source: NCC press releases (2018–)
Tower & collocation companies
NCC-licensed passive-infrastructure (tower) and site-collocation operators. American Tower Corporation (ATC Nigeria) is a more recent market entrant, having taken over MTN Nigeria's tower relationship from IHS in 2023.
Source: NCC Individual Licence Register — Collocation Services
Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
NCC has over 230 licensed ISPs; the names below are the highest-traffic fixed/fibre/fixed-wireless providers plus the MNOs' fixed-broadband arms.
Source: NCC Consumer Portal + industry reporting
Value-Added Service (VAS) providers
Licensed VAS providers and aggregators — SMS/USSD content, mobile applications, contact-centre and messaging platforms operating on top of the MNO networks.
Source: NCC Individual Licence Register — Value Added Services
Submarine cable & international gateway operators
Operators and consortia landing/operating submarine fibre cables that carry Nigeria's international bandwidth.
Source: ASCON / industry reporting
Satellite & space-based services
State and commercial satellite/space-services operators authorized by NCC's Commercial Satellite Communications Guidelines.
Source: NCC Authorized Space Services Operators list
National carrier & long-distance operators
Holder of the National Carrier licence and legacy long-distance transmission infrastructure inherited from NITEL/MTEL.
Source: NCC licence records / company disclosures