You may recall two weeks ago, the Nigerian Communications Commission NCC, slammed Telecommunications giant MTN Nigeria a fine of 1.4 trillion Naira. The fine was handed down for keeping over 5.1m unregistered SIMS of its subscribers, even after series of warnings by NCC to disable unregistered lines. NCC has further given MTN a deadline of November 16th to pay up or face the consequences. MTN had since then resorted to doubling call rates and unwarranted deductions from subscribers credit.
MTN had in the past been criticized for creating unhealthy competitions among Telecommunications companies in the country, spamming its subscribers with annoying promotions, providing poor customer support and charging high data rates from call credit even with active data plans among others. Many Nigerians had believed that NCC officials were corrupt to have allowed MTN rule with such level of impunity, until the news of the fine was told.
Since the fine was handed down, MTN call rates had doubled across board, and there are frequent credit deductions from subscribers, supposedly in a bid to raise money to pay their fine, since their plea to reduce the fine had ended on deaf ears. I have personally avoided MTN since i noticed the trend and am sure my readers will agree its a first aid to this situation.
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