Classifieds on mobile
First among Nigerian shopping sites by estimated search visits, about 2.2 million a month in October 2026 (Ahrefs). Asking prices by category and state; leave sellers’ numbers out.
Nigeria mobile proxies on MTN and Airtel, where nearly every internet line is a mobile one
Exits on Nigerian carrier networks, picked with -cc-ng on a mobile login. A sample of 12 mobile exits on 27 October 2026 came from Airtel (9) and MTN (3). Mobile traffic runs from $3.99 down to $2.19 per GB, and a session can stay on one exit for up to 6 hours.
Lines on MTN and Airtel86%
MTN has 52.0% and Airtel 34.2% of Nigeria’s 197.2 million lines (NCC, August 2026).
Mobile internet subscriptions158.1M
Against 227,910 fixed ones in the same NCC count.
Page views from phones75.22%
Share of Nigerian page views on mobile devices, September 2026 (StatCounter).
One exit, held6 h
A session key keeps the same carrier exit for up to 6 hours.
Why mobile
The Nigerian internet runs on mobile networks
Fixed lines barely register in the NCC’s August 2026 count: 227,910 fixed internet subscriptions against 158.1 million mobile ones. MTN held 84.6 million of the mobile subscriptions and Airtel 56.9 million, close to nine in ten between them.
Phones lead the page views as well. In September 2026 mobile devices produced 75.22% of Nigerian page views, Android ran 84.21% of the mobile ones and iOS 15.67%, and Opera held 14.28% of the browser market (StatCounter). Add Opera to the browsers you test a Nigerian mobile page in.
Carriers
Four mobile operators and the ASNs behind them
MTN has just over half of Nigeria’s 197.2 million lines and Airtel about a third. Glo and T2, formerly 9mobile, are smaller and turned up in none of our sample exits. An IP lookup shows registry names: MTN NIGERIA Communication limited, Airtel Networks Limited, Globacom Limited, and for T2 still Emerging Markets Telecommunication Services (EMTS).
| Operator | ASN | Lines (NCC) | Mobile internet | Users (APNIC) | IPv6 | In our mobile sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MTN | AS29465 | 102.6M, 52.0% | 84.6M | 68.93% | 5.2% | 3 |
| Airtel | AS36873 | 67.4M, 34.2% | 56.9M | 29.33% | 3.3% | 9 |
| Glo (Globacom) | AS37148 | 23.6M, 12.0% | 15.8M | 16.10% | 0.05% | 0 |
| T2, formerly 9mobile | AS37076 | 3.6M, 1.8% | 0.81M | 0.19% | 0.02% | 0 |
Lines and mobile internet subscriptions: NCC, August 2026. APNIC Labs estimates each network’s share of Nigerian users on its own (report of 25 October 2026), and its rows add up to 120.89%, so read them as reach and not as market shares. IPv6-capable users: APNIC, 26 October 2026, 5.78% for the country. The last column counts our sample of 12 mobile exits on 27 October 2026 and does not describe the pool. Only logins for the US, the UK and Germany take a carrier key; in Nigeria the Python example checks each exit’s carrier by its ASN.
4G and 5G
How many Nigerian lines run on 4G and 5G
Share of mobile subscribers by network generation, from the NCC. 5G’s share grew by about half in a year, to fewer than one line in twenty, while more than a third of lines are still on 2G.
| Generation | August 2025 | August 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| 4G | 51.22% | 54.77% |
| 2G | 38.38% | 36.05% |
| 5G | 3.27% | 4.92% |
| 3G | 7.13% | 4.27% |
No login key selects the generation, and an IP lookup cannot tell a 4G exit from a 5G one.
Local platforms
Nigerian sites and apps to check from a phone IP
Marketplace prices
Jumia is second with about 1.3 million search visits. Read its mobile prices and discounts next to Konga’s for the same product.
Airline fares
Air Peace’s site draws about 253K search visits a month. Record a fare search on one sticky exit from start to finish.
Mobile search results
Google handles 98.28% of Nigerian searches. Mobile rankings for your own pages from a Nigerian carrier exit. Rank checks by location.
Your TikTok account
TikTok’s ad tools counted 47.8 million users aged 18 and over in late 2025, 38.2% of adults. Publish and answer comments on the accounts you own. TikTok setup.
Meta pages and ads
38.0 million Facebook and 10.0 million Instagram users in Meta’s ad figures. Manage the pages you run and see your own ads as Nigerian phones show them.
Only public pages seen while logged out, and only accounts you own; the terms of each site apply. Search visits: Ahrefs, October 2026. Audiences: DataReportal, Digital 2026 Nigeria, late 2025.
Pricing
Buy Nigeria mobile proxies: the price per GB
Mobile GB you buy once work in Nigeria and in every other country. The tier you reach prices the whole purchase, GB never expire, and residential costs $0.50 per GB less at every tier.
| Traffic you buy | Price per GB | For example |
|---|---|---|
| 1–9 GB | $3.99 | 5 GB for $19.95 |
| 10–49 GB | $3.49 | 10 GB for $34.90 |
| 50–99 GB | $3.19 | 50 GB for $159.50 |
| 100–249 GB | $2.89 | 100 GB for $289.00 |
| 250–499 GB | $2.59 | 250 GB for $647.50 |
| 500–999 GB | $2.39 | 500 GB for $1,195.00 |
| 1,000+ GB | $2.19 | 1,000 GB for $2,190.00 |
All four products, and the free trial terms in force today, are on the pricing page.
For developers
Keep the session only if the carrier is right
A two-hour session on a Nigerian mobile login, kept only when ipinfo.io names one of the carrier ASNs you asked for.
import requests, uuid
GATE = "gate.aeonproxy.com:7000"
# the four Nigerian mobile operators; T2 (formerly 9mobile) is still registered as EMTS
CARRIERS = {"AS29465": "MTN", "AS36873": "Airtel", "AS37148": "Glo", "AS37076": "T2"}
def carrier_session(wanted=("MTN", "Airtel"), tries=8):
for _ in range(tries):
sid = uuid.uuid4().hex[:10]
proxy = f"http://ap_a1b2c3-cc-ng-sid-{sid}-time-7200:PASS@{GATE}"
info = requests.get("https://ipinfo.io/json", proxies={"http": proxy, "https": proxy}, timeout=40).json()
carrier = CARRIERS.get(info.get("org", "").split(" ")[0])
if info.get("country") == "NG" and carrier in wanted:
return proxy, carrier, info
return None, None, None # no wanted carrier: try again later
proxy, carrier, info = carrier_session()
print(carrier, info["ip"], info.get("city"), info["org"])
# Airtel 105.118.XX.XX Lagos AS36873 Airtel Networks Limited
with requests.Session() as s:
s.proxies = {"http": proxy, "https": proxy} # the same exit for the next 2 hours
listing = s.get("https://jiji.ng/", timeout=40)Pass wanted=("MTN",) to keep MTN exits only, or add "Glo" and "T2" to accept all four operators. The loop drops any exit outside Nigeria as well.
# rotating: no session key, so each request may leave from another exit
curl -x http://gate.aeonproxy.com:7000 -U "ap_a1b2c3-cc-ng:PASS" https://ipinfo.io/json
# sticky for 2 hours, over SOCKS5 on port 7001
curl --socks5-hostname gate.aeonproxy.com:7001 \
-U "ap_a1b2c3-cc-ng-sid-ng7a01-time-7200:PASS" \
https://ipinfo.io/jsonA Nigerian quirk
Every SIM is tied to a national identity number
Since 4 April 2022 Nigerian operators have barred outgoing calls on lines that are not linked to a National Identification Number (NIN), on the Federal Government’s instruction. The exercise began with a presidential directive in December 2020, and by April 2022 more than 125 million SIMs had a NIN submitted, the NCC said.
A barred line stays barred until its holder links a NIN, the NCC repeated on 10 April 2022. Someone with several lines gives the same NIN to each network, online or with the USSD code *996#.
Operators were later told to block unlinked SIMs completely after 28 February 2024 (Developing Telecoms). The NCC’s count of GSM lines fell from 216.7 million in April 2024 to 171.8 million in May, a drop its table does not explain, and had climbed to 197.2 million by August 2026.
Choose a type
Which proxy type fits a Nigerian job
Two of our products bill traffic and two bill addresses. Whether Nigerian ISP or datacenter IPs are in stock, the order page shows.
Mobile
MTN and Airtel carrier exits
- $3.99 → $2.19 per GB.
- Rotating, or sticky for up to 6 hours.
- Fits mobile pages, apps, ad checks and accounts you own on TikTok, Facebook or Instagram.
- Regions and cities, where available, appear in the dashboard generator.
$0.50 per GB above residential at every tier.
Residential
Fibre, Starlink and carrier lines
- $3.49 → $1.69 per GB.
- 144K+ residential IPs in the pool, October 2026.
- State and city keys for Lagos, the FCT and Rivers State, listed on our Nigeria proxies page.
- Fits price and listing collection on Jiji, Jumia and Konga.
The cheaper option for desktop pages.
ISP · Datacenter
Static addresses by the month or term
- ISP: $4.00 per IP for each month.
- Datacenter: $0.50 for 3 days, $0.83 a week, $1.33 for half a month or $2.00 a month.
- One address for the whole rental, one customer per IP.
- Stock per country is on the order page.
For a fixed address across days or weeks.
Nigerian law and a mobile proxy
We found no Nigerian rule on proxies or VPNs, and the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 does not mention them. Signed on 12 June 2023, the Act created the Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC). Section 44 makes data controllers and processors of major importance register with it, and section 48 lets it impose a penalty of up to the greater of ₦10 million and 2% of the previous year’s gross revenue on those controllers, or of ₦2 million and 2% on others. The NDPC’s General Application and Implementation Directive has replaced the older NDPR rules since 19 September 2025.
For work on a mobile exit that means public listing fields without names or phone numbers, logged-out pages, and social platforms only through accounts you own and within their rules.
Not legal advice. How courts elsewhere have ruled on scraping: our case guide.Free 200 MB — join our Telegram
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Nigeria mobile proxy questions
Put -cc-ng on a mobile login and your requests leave Nigeria from a carrier connection, so the site sees an MTN or Airtel address. That is the view to check for mobile pages, apps, ads on mobile placements and accounts you own on social platforms. Desktop price collection costs less on a residential exit.
No per-country mobile count is published for Nigeria. Exits come from Nigerian carriers: in a sample of 12 mobile exits on 27 October 2026 Airtel had 9 and MTN 3, and no Glo or T2 exit turned up. When you generate a mobile list, the dashboard shows the Nigerian exits on offer.
You cannot ask for MTN by name in a Nigerian login. Check the ASN of each exit instead: AS29465 is MTN, AS36873 Airtel, AS37148 Glo and AS37076 T2. The Python example keeps a session when the ASN is one you want and opens a new one otherwise.
There is no key for it, and a lookup of the exit will not tell you. Across the country, the NCC counted 54.77% of lines on 4G and 4.92% on 5G in August 2026, with 36.05% still on 2G.
In the dashboard, as mobile traffic that works in every country. The price per GB starts at $3.99 and falls with volume to $2.19 from 1,000 GB; your tier’s rate covers the whole purchase and the GB do not expire. The pricing page lists all tiers and the trial terms that apply now.
You pick the length: -time- takes 60 to 21600 seconds, so the -time-7200 in the example holds one Nigerian exit for 2 hours and -time-21600 for the 6-hour maximum. Keep sending the same login with the same session key; without one, requests may rotate.
Residential is $0.50 per GB cheaper and suits Jiji, Jumia and Konga prices or Google results: 144K+ residential IPs in the pool, October 2026. Mobile fits work that should look like a Nigerian phone, which is how three in four Nigerian page views arrive.
The generator in the dashboard shows which Nigerian regions and cities a mobile login can reach, and city placement is where available. Lookups of the carriers’ address blocks lean heavily towards Lagos, so confirm each exit’s city with the IP checker before you rely on it.
We found no Nigerian law that regulates proxies or VPNs as such. The Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 covers personal data however it is collected, with penalties of up to 2% of the previous year’s gross revenue or a fixed naira sum, whichever is greater. This is not legal advice.
You can, for accounts you own and within the rules of each platform. Keep one sticky session for the whole time you are logged in; -cc-ng in the login keeps the country the same between visits.
Not for anything you care about. Whoever runs a free proxy can log what you send and read whatever is unencrypted, and you will rarely find out who that is. Nigeria’s four operators sit on AS29465, AS36873, AS37148 and AS37076, so look the address up before a password goes through it.