The House has carried on in the misguided belief that it is fighting the corner of pay television service subscribers. The lower chamber, in terms of working hard to make itself into a congregation of cartoon characters, I have to say, has succeeded.
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Adeoye-Balogun, who spoke in Lagos on Thursday, said the House appears confused and is indulging in legislative overreach, noting that there is no provision in the country’s laws that empowers the federal government to determine billing models for and prices charged by private operatives.
This followed the adoption of the reports and recommendation of the Ad hoc Committee on Non–Implementation of Pay–As–You–Go and sudden Increment of Tariffs plan by Broadcast Digital Satellite Service Providers.
Ugbe stated this on Monday while making a presentation to the House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee investigating the non-implementation of PAYG subscription model by satellite television service operators.
The video sent to me showed Irukera on Sunrise Daily, Channels Television’s flagship public affairs programme, sticking a pin into my balloon of optimism that PAYG was implementable in pay television and should replace the fixed monthly subscription billing model. Asked for his view on applicability, the FCCPC boss said many pay television subscribers confuse telecommunications industry operations with those of the pay-television industry.
StarTimes introduced the pay-as-you-go model in 2017 to offer more flexible subscription options to pay-television consumers based on their needs and means.
This position was made known by the Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, Babatunde Irukera, on a Channels Television programme, Sunrise Daily, on Friday.