MTN Nigeria rebranded its fiber broadband service in April 2025 with a clear objective: to reach more homes, provide stable, high-speed internet access for businesses and individuals needing more than mobile network capabilities, and expand to more cities nationwide.
Today, MTN's FibreX product line appears to have become its new growth engine. While wireless technologies (4G/5G) have profoundly reshaped Nigeria's digital landscape, fiber is seen as a crucial complement to national broadband, poised to drive digital transformation.
In an interview with Technext, Egerton Idehen, MTN Nigeria's Chief Broadband Officer, stated that FibreX is MTN's response to the new realities of Nigeria's current digital space. He emphasized that wired and wireless connections need to develop synergistically to achieve the nation's internet development goals. Through its FibreX service, MTN is providing high-speed, reliable network experiences of up to 1Gbps for data-intensive users such as gamers, remote workers, content creators, and streamers.
What Makes FibreX Unique
Unlike most other Internet Service Providers that cap data usage, MTN FibreX offers unlimited plans, allowing users to browse, watch, and download to their hearts' content without worrying about data limits, Fair Usage Policies (FUP), or speed throttling.
In terms of pricing, the 50Mbps plan at 25,000 Naira per month offers a reasonably priced option for the young middle class who find mobile data insufficient but consider Starlink too expensive. Data shows that from January 2025 to January 2026, fiber users grew by nearly 78,000, indicating increasing adoption among the premium and quality data consumer segment nationwide.
Despite mixed reviews on service quality on social media, most users still consider its performance superior. In fact, since the rebranding in April 2025, MTN FibreX added nearly 63,000 new subscribers by January 2026, a staggering 421% increase compared to the average monthly growth of 2,000 to 9,000 users over the previous two years.
The user growth peaked in September 2025, with a surge of 56.8% (16,640 users) in that month, marking the highest monthly growth recorded for the service in nearly a decade.
Egerton Idehen also revealed expansion plans for the short term, including:
However, challenges remain.
In the company's year-end financial report for the period ending December 31, 2025, data revenue increased by 74.5% year-on-year to 2.8 trillion Naira, becoming a significant driver of total revenue, with broadband services being a key contributor. During the same period, active data users grew by 11.6% to 53.2 million, data traffic increased by 34.0%, and average data usage per user rose by 20% to 13.1GB.