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    Thursday, 8 December 2016

    The Battle is Not Over Yet: Minister Tells us to Prepare For the Data Price Increase


    The day gone by, Adebayo Shittu who is the Minister Of Communication, told Nigerians to be organized for an upcoming data rate hike. His announcement got here after they sat down together to investigate the proposed records tariff hike, Senator Solomon Adeola who stated the public outcry become a few of the committee participants.

    however, NCC vice president Prof. Umar Dambatta advised the committee members that NCC decision was made to guard the Nigerian customer from unhealthy charge warfare and additionally create a stability between huge and small operators. See his announcement 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 90kobo 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."
    Watch The Meeting Video Below



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