“Following the concerns that visited the directive to introduce price floor for data segment of the telecommunications sector beginning from December 1, 2016, the Nigerian Communications Commission has suspended any further action in that direction,” the commission said in a statement by its Director, Public Affairs, Tony Ojobo
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He said that through the Universal Service Provision Fund being managed by a department under NCC, 40 million people in these areas would be covered in 2017
Ojobo said that the 13 operators included: Airtel Network Limited, MTN Nigeria, Globacom Nigeria, Smile Communication, Visafone Communications, Ntel, Etisalat, Multi-Links, Starcomms, Danjay Telecoms, Gamjitel Limited, Megatech Engineering Limited and Gicell Wireless
It said that the active telecommunications service customers increased by 495,426 in September as against the figure in August which stood at 152,776,155
The data showed that of the 226,686,390 connected telephone numbers, only 152,800,848 lines were being put to use.
It stated that of the 73,885,542 inactive numbers, the Global System for Mobile Communications networks had a share of 70,410,670
The increase in the ITR can be traced to a recommendation in a publication prepared by NCC’s Policy, Competition and Economic Analysis Department in 2015
According to him, such handsets are responsible for the various network and related problems they experience during dialing or receiving of calls
According to him, consumers have to remain on the new network for at least 90 days before they can move to any other network
The Code Division Multiple Access operators had a share of 3,240,313 while the Fixed Wired/Wireless networks had a total of 184,819 unused lines
The report said: “As part of the strategy to address the issues of multiple taxations and regulations in the Nigerian telecommunications industry, the commission had facilitated the establishment of the IWG on multiple taxations and regulations
It said the NCC monitored compliance of the telecommunication company with regards to the commission’s directive on routing of a minimum of 10 per cent of interconnect traffic through interconnect exchange licensees
Abdul said in July 2015, the outfit was sanctioned to the tune of four million Naira for non type-approving, eight different models of its handset phones
He said Nokia-Alcatel was involved in equipment manufacturing, supply and installation and therefore it could have obtained the “Sale and Installation” licence
Atoyebi said: “It is the duty of the NCC to regulate the activities of the GSM service providers and we are always there to do that; no one should suffer in silence
He said the ICT sector would grow the nation’s economy into billions of dollars provided a lot of developments could take place
Danbatta said the release of the data to the NIMC was to give a boost to efforts of the Federal Government toward harmonizing biometric data capturing by different agencies in the country
The report indicated that there was an additional 2,144,735 inactive numbers within the period, making the unused lines to increase to 67,331,498 in June
According to the data, the country’s teledensity stood at 107.01 per cent as at the end of June, with active telephone lines of 149.8 million
The statement reads: “In line with Information Memorandum (IM) on the auction of 70 MHz in the 2.6 GHz Spectrum Band published on February 25, 2016 the Nigerian Communications Commission, on behalf on the Federal Government of Nigeria, wishes to announce that the auction process, which closed for submission of applications on April 29, 2016, produced one Qualified Bidder
Two big areas of long-awaited intervention are consumer protection and anti-competition practices. 15 years after the launch of GSM in Nigeria, subscribers have continued to experience poor quality of service. Very regularly, we experience dropped calls, difficulties in completing calls, and questionable deduction of subscribers’ credit balances