Home Internet in Nigeria: The One Provider That Publishes Its Prices

This article was going to compare internet providers in Nigeria on price. It cannot, and the reason is the most useful thing we found: only one provider publishes a readable price. So this is an account of what that one provider publishes, what the figures actually mean, and what you have to ask everyone else.

Why this is not a price comparison

A comparison needs a tariff read at each provider. On 24 October 2026 we tried and recorded the result: MTN's broadband shop returned HTTP 403 and its home broadband page HTTP 404; Airtel's fixed-wireless page returned HTTP 403; and Starlink's Nigeria page carried no amount in its page text at all. Our own reference data records the same conclusion from an independent reading on 6 October 2026: the other providers either load their prices with JavaScript or do not answer at all, and the regulator sets price conditions but publishes no package prices.

So treat every "Nigeria internet price comparison" table you meet as unsourced unless it names the provider page and the date it was read. We are not printing one.

What Spectranet publishes: two products, not two prices

Spectranet publishes two separate product lines, and confusing them is the easiest mistake to make. Spectra Premium is fixed wireless access. Spectra Elite is fiber into the home. Read on 6 October 2026, the fixed wireless plans in Lagos were:

• NGN 20,000 for 30 days, unlimited data, up to 7 Mbps
• NGN 22,000 for 30 days, up to 10 Mbps
• NGN 25,000 for 30 days, up to 15 Mbps
• NGN 29,000 for 30 days, up to 20 Mbps

The fiber-to-the-home line runs from NGN 17,000 for 30 days at up to 7 Mbps through NGN 20,000 at 10 Mbps, NGN 25,000 at 20 Mbps and NGN 39,000 at 50 Mbps, up to NGN 100,000 at up to 200 Mbps. Note what that means at the bottom of the range: at 10 Mbps the fiber plan and the Lagos fixed wireless plan are not the same amount, so the product you are quoted matters as much as the speed.

One caution on the source. The plan pages carry no effective date, so 6 October 2026 is a reading date, not a validity date. Spectranet also publishes a third page where the two product lines appear together and the same speed shows a different amount; our reference data deliberately does not read that page, and neither should you.

Thirty days is not a calendar month

This is the detail that quietly wrecks a relocation budget. The plans are published as 30 Days validity, not per month. A year holds 365 / 30 = 12.17 of those terms, not twelve. Multiply a 30-day price by twelve and you understate the year by about one and a half per cent — and you will be short a renewal in every year. Budget on 12.17 terms, or ask Spectranet in writing whether an annual contract is billed monthly instead.

These amounts stay in naira. We are not converting them. There is no dated exchange rate in our approved reference set for Nigeria, and a conversion at an undated rate would be the one invented number in an article built to avoid them.

The city switch: Abuja is dearer at every speed

The fixed wireless product is priced per city, and the difference runs one way. In Abuja the same four speeds were published at NGN 21,000 (7 Mbps), NGN 25,500 (10 Mbps), NGN 31,000 (15 Mbps) and NGN 35,000 (20 Mbps) — dearer than Lagos at all four. The fiber-to-the-home line behaves differently: the city selector there changes only the list of covered estates, and the price is identical in Lagos and Abuja. That was checked rather than assumed.

The practical consequence: a price someone quotes you from the other city is not your price if you are on fixed wireless, and is your price if you are on fiber. Confirm which product the quote refers to before you sign anything.

What no provider publishes

Here is the honest gap list, and it is long:

• No installation fee is published by any provider we could read, for any product.
• No equipment or router charge, and no statement of whether the router is sold, rented or included.
• No contract term and no early-termination charge.
• No measured speed, uptime or latency figure from any provider or the regulator. The published numbers are up to ceilings, which is a product name, not a measurement.
• No street-level coverage map you can check an address against. The fiber page lists covered estates; a street is not an estate.
• No prices at all for satellite, ADSL or DSL in Nigeria from the operators themselves.

How to choose without a comparison table

Ask every provider the same five questions in writing, and keep the replies:

• Is this fixed wireless or fiber to the premises, and at my exact address?
• Is the term 30 days or a calendar month, and what is the annual price?
• What is the one-off cost — installation, router, deposit — as a single total?
• Is the data genuinely unlimited, or is there a fair-use threshold and what happens at it?
• What is the published restoration time when the service fails, and what is the credit if it is missed?

Then do one thing no brochure can do for you: ask two neighbors on your own street which provider they use and what fails. For a question nobody publishes an answer to, that is the only evidence available, and it is evidence about your street rather than about Nigeria.

What expats should know

• Only one provider publishes a price. This is not a market comparison and no honest one exists from published sources.
• Spectranet's Lagos fixed wireless ran NGN 20,000 to NGN 29,000 per 30 days across 7 to 20 Mbps, read 6 October 2026.
• Fibre to the home ran NGN 17,000 to NGN 100,000 per 30 days, 7 to 200 Mbps, same price in both cities.
• Thirty days is not a month. A year is 12.17 terms.
• Abuja fixed wireless is dearer than Lagos at every speed.
• The plan pages carry no effective date, so any amount you read, including ours, is a reading.
• No installation fee, contract term or uptime figure is published anywhere. Get them in writing before you commit.
• Keep naira figures in naira. Any conversion you are shown needs a dated rate.

Where to check

The fixed wireless plans are on Spectranet's Fibre on Air page and the fiber plans on its Home Fiber page, both read on 6 October 2026 and neither carrying an effective date. The unreachability of the other providers' pages was measured on 24 October 2026 and is recorded above with the exact HTTP responses. For anything the pages do not state — installation, term, router, restoration time — the provider's written answer is the only source.

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