Not Yet Over - As Ministers (NCC) Advises Nigerians To Prepare For Telecom Data Price Increase

Sad news again, When mtn is doing their own in one side urging the government to ban our belove WhatsApp from Nigeria, Adebayo Shittu who is the Communication Ministers (NCC), asked Nigerians to be prepared for an impending data price hike. His statement came up after the committee was set up to investigate the proposed data tariff hike, Senator Solomon Adeola who noted the public outcry was among the committee members.


However, NCC Executive Vice Chairman Prof. Umar Dambatta told the committee members that NCC intervention was not to ruin or undermine consumers but to protect the Nigerian consumer from unhealthy price war and also create a balance between big and small operators. See his statement below;

“We wanted to protect the Nigerian consumer from the unhealthy price war in what may lead to a monopoly that may lead us to the days of NITEL. We did not increase any price, but merely provided a regulatory standard to protect small telecom operators.”

“We said in the interim directive measure that no operator should sell below 90k per megabyte. There was a price war in the market; that was why we issued the interim directive.

“A situation where a dominant operator provides services far below what is obtainable in the sector in order to attract more customers may lead to a situation where smaller operators will be forced to shut down.

What he believes was that if the situation arose, the smaller operators could no longer cope and the consequences could be better imagined.

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This means that NCC will surely increase the price of data plans of telecommunication..