This Day (Lagos)
17 December 2007
Ordinarily, Nigerians should join the nation's telecoms operators in celebrating the geometric rise in the volume of patronage which telecoms operators have enjoyed in the last six years. With a subscribers' base rising from 40,000 to as much as 46.2 million in six years, the telecoms operators must be smiling to the bank on a daily basis. Of the said number, the GSM service providers account for ...
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"It is this aversion to NITEL that has understandably plunged the fortunes of the outfit resulting in the drastic drop of its subscribers' base from 40,000 in Year 2001 to just 70,000 today. So, the fall of NITEL has become the harvest of the GSM providers."
I am wondering why "drastic drop of..subscribers' base from 40,000 in Year 2001 to just 70,000 today" is considered a drop. Can someone explain the calculation? Thanks.