The telecommunications regulator disclosed this in its ‘Type Approval’ regulation published on Tuesday.
The new approvals represent a total increase of 351, from the 1,492 phones approved in 2020 by the regulator. Samsung phones, which are manufactured by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd received approval for over 184 of its handsets.Nokia received approval for 108 brands of its mobile phones, according to the data.ZTE, manufactured by ZTE Corporation, Shenzhen China has over 45 models approved for the Nigerian market.
Other phones that received approval were Ericsson Mobile Phones , Vivo and HTC phones has 14 brands among many other phone brands.