Nigeria’s Internet traffic hits 900GB/s

Internet eXchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN), the body that promotes connectivity and innovation with peering community, has said Nigeria’s Internet traffic hit the 900GB/s mark in December 2024.

The implication of this is that there has been an extremely high data transfer rate in the country’s Internet space with immense amount of bandwidth usage.

This milestone came even as the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) showed that as of December last year, Nigerians consumed 973,455.35 terabytes of data.

Speaking at the weekend in Lagos during the yearly IXPN members engagement forum, the CEO of IXPN, Muhammed Rudman, while highlighting the importance domesticating Internet traffic generated in Nigeria in order to grow local traffic and keep Nigeria’s Internet traffic within the country, noted that the organisation was dedicated to building a stronger Internet exchange ecosystem and advancing Nigeria’s digital landscape through efficient interconnectivity.

Rudman said IXPN was set up to keep Nigerian Internet traffic within the country, domesticate local traffic and reduce costs associated with accessing local Internet content, thereby enhancing local connectivity and improving overall Internet experience for the end users.

While promoting and encouraging the creation of local content and serving as an efficient centralised launch point for services. Speaking about the economic impact of domesticating local traffic, Rudman said: “In terms of economic impact, apart from the Internet banking and other things that we take advantage of, we don’t really benefit much because the traffic is more of download than upload. So, with what we are doing, the objective is to ensure that 80 per cent of our traffic at least is domesticated.”