Rep. Saheed Akinade-Fijabi (Oyo-APC), Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Telecommunications, decried MTN’s letter referred the committee to the Nigerian Communications Commission
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The company has been negotiating with the Government over a possible reduction of the fine and made a part payment of $251 million (N50 billion), also setting aside $600 million for further payment of the fine
President Muhammad Buhari said the act of the company assisted the Boko Haram insurgents in the North East as they had access to the MTN network to perpetrate their attroicities
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Communications, Gilbert Nnaji, on Thursday demanded to know the account into which the money was paid at a meeting with officials of MTN, the Accountant General of the Federation and other stakeholders in Abuja
This was contained in the ‘Incoming and Outgoing Porting Activities of Mobile Network Operators’ report
He said by failing to disconnect the unregistered users, MTN provided the Boko Haram terrorists the opportunity to carry out their nefarious activities
Africa’s biggest wireless phone company is in talks with Nigerian authorities to reduce a $3.9 billion fine imposed last year for failing to cut off unregistered SIM card users
Nhleko said on Thursday in Johannesburg that the listing would take place in Lagos once the company resolved a disputed $3.9 billion fine with the Nigerian governmen
The statement said: “The official information to the commission to that effect was received from the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice on February 29, 2016
NAN recalls that in the “2015 Q3 Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Reports”, NCC had resolved to monitor and sanction violations with MNP process time obligations said “to address the increasing cases of port request rejections”
The settlement was opted for after MTN had asked the court to arbitrate over the dispute, saying the Nigerian Communications Commission had no legal grounds to order the fine
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had on February 5 arrested Tarfa and confiscated his two mobile phones and his Mercedez Benz SUV with Registration No. KJA 700 CG on the allegation that Tarfa hid two alleged suspects of economic and financial crimes in his car to prevent their arrest
The statement said: “The negative earnings performance has been impacted by a number of factors with the operational underperformance in Nigeria
The statement explained that Fidelis had participated in the promo and was called through MTN line 180 on October 10, 2012 that he had won N2 million in the Ultimate Wonder Promo
The report showed that there was a decrease of 1,019 Mobile Number Portability activities in the month of December, when compared to 36,519 activities recorded in November.
In the substantive suit, MTN is challenging the sanction imposed on it, urging the court to quash same
The aggressive launch of 4G LTE services by the merged entity of MTN and Visafone is also expected to drive the broadband penetration in the country from under 10 per cent now to the targeted 30 per cent by 2018 as per the national broadband plan of the Federal Government and help meet the national broadband plan targets
At the Lugbe MTN outlet, some of the subscribers urged the company to find a better way of upgrading the database of customers.
Michael Chucks, a medical practitioner, urged MTN to be a little more organised to avoid making masses suffer unnecessarily for other people’s mistakes
She said the acquisition, which sought to leverage resources for service enhancement, was also reflective of the company’s concerted efforts to deepen the growth and roll out of broadband services across the country
The NCC, through its team of lawyers, led by Dr. Wale Babalakin, Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu, Paul Usoro and Ahmed Raji, all Senior Advocates of Nigeria, asked the Federal High Court in Lagos, where the suit was filed by MTN, to decline jurisdiction