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    Business Nigeria: NCC's New Data Price Floor for Big Telecos Revealed

    The Nigeria Communications Commission, NCC, has ordered major telecoms firms in the country to adopt a data price floor for internet services. According to a report from The Cable, NCC directed that the new (interim) price floor for data services will now be 0.90k/MB for “big operator." This...
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    Metro Nigeria Labour Union Reject Proposed Increase in Internet Data Tariff

    The Trade Union Congress, TUC, has rejected the proposed increase in data tariff in Nigeria by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC. “The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria warns against the on-going conspiracy between the Federal Government through the Nigerian Communications Commission...
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    Business Why We Directed Big Telcos To Increase Data Tariffs - NCC

    The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has directed the five big telecoms operators in the country to increase their data tariffs from Thursday, December 1, in order to allow small operators and new entrants to acquire market share and operate profitably, Daily Trust has learnt. An NCC...
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    Metro Buhari is Betraying Zuckerberg – TUC Issues Statement Over Data Tariff Hike

    The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria has warned against the on-going conspiracy between the Federal Government through the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and some major telcom companies to further increase their data rates from December 1, 2016. TUC disclosed this in a statement by...
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    Business Nigerians Petition FG To Stop Data Tariff Increase By NCC

    Nigerians have petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government over plans to increase data plan prices by December 1st, 2016. The petition is available via change.org against the federal government to halt the increase by NCC. The petition reads: “NCC has instructed...
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    Business NCC Orders MTN, Glo, Airtel, Etisalat To Increase Data Tariffs

    The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has directed mobile telephone operators in the country to jerk up data tariffs with effect from December 1. The regulator had in a letter dated Nov 1 titled: Re: Determination of an Interim Price Floor for Data Services referred the telcos to its...
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    Politics Nigerian Senate U-Turns, Withdraws Buhari's NCC Nominee

    About twelve days after the Senate cleared Chief Okoi Ofem Obono-Obla, Cross River, South South, as a non-Executive Commissioner on the governing board of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, it has made a dramatic turn by dropping his name from the list of successful nominees sent to...
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    Business MTN, Airtel, Glo, Others in Fresh Trouble With NCC

    The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on Monday said it would sanction 13 telecommunications operators for failing to comply with the ‘2442 Do Not Disturb (DND)’ directive on unsolicited telemarketing. NCC’s Director of Public Affairs, Mr Tony Ojobo, in a statement said the directive was...
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    Politics President Buhari Orders Probe of Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari over N500m MTN Scandal

    Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Alhaji Abba Kyari is said to be under investigation by the Special Investigation Panel of the Nigerian Police Force over bribery allegations. The probe according to Vanguard’s investigation is in connection with alleged N500million bribery money...
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    Business NCC Sends Final Warning To MTN, Airtel, Glo, Etisalat Over Unsolicited Messages

    The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has issued final warning to Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) operators, especially the quartet of MTN, Globacom, Airtel and Etisalat, to halt forthwith unsolicited messages (SMS) to subscribers. The regulator noted that despite its...
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    Business NCC Seals Nokia-Alcatel Office For Operating Without License

    The Nigerian Communications Commission on Wednesday sealed the office of Nokia-Alcatel located in Lekki, Lagos for operating without license. The NCC’s Head of Enforcement Unit, Mr Salisu Abdul, while speaking with newsmen shortly after the sealing in Lagos, said that the company had been...
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    Business NCC May Go After MTN, Etisalat Over Sim Registration

    The Nigerian Communications Commission on Tuesday raided some strategic locations in the Federal Capital Territory where active preregistered SIM cards were being sold by agents of mobile telecommunications operators. The Assistant Director, Enforcement, Mr. Salisu Abdu, told reporters after...
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    Business Unsolicited SMS: Now You Can Opt Out With 'Do-Not-Disturb' Code

    The mandatory implementation of the ‘Do-Not- Disturb’ code by the telecoms operators takes effect from today. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) had few months ago given all the telecoms operators in the country up to June 30 to switch on the 2442 code to allow any subscriber who does...
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    Business MTN Pays Another N30bn Out of N330Bn NCC Fine

    Telecommunications firm, MTN has said it has paid additional N30 billion to the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) as part of the N330 billion fine slammed on it for contravening regulatory orders in the country. The new N30 billion now increases the payment made by the South African firm...
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    Business MTN Finally Agrees To Pay N330Bn of Nigeria Fine

    South Africa's MTN Group said on Friday it will pay 330 billion naira ($1.67 billion) over three years to the Nigerian government to settle a fine. In October, Nigeria originally fined the mobile phone operator $5.2 billion for failing to disconnect users in Africa's most populous nation. The...
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    Business Nigeria: NCC Wins Africa Regulator Of The Year Award

    The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has won the African Regulator Award for 2015. The NCC won the award at the Africa Information Technology and Telecoms Award (AITTA) hosted by the London-based MobileWorld magazine and United Kingdom (UK) registered Instinct Wave Inc. The award was...
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    Business MTN Shares Declines After FG Suspends Talks on $3.9bn Fine

    MTN Group Limited shares fell after Nigeria suspended talks about a $3.9 billion fine on the South African mobile-phone company. The stock declined as much as 2.9 percent, the most since May 12, and traded 1.5 percent lower at 126.50 rand monday in Johannesburg, valuing the company at 233...
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    Business NCC Issues New Strict Policy Over Unsolicited SMS, Calls

    Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is set to address complaints of subscribers who have been inundated with unsolicited telemarketing, short message service (SMS) and voice calls by mobile network operators with a warning that it shall fine any operator found culpable with a fine N5...
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    Business MTN Loses 6.5million Internet Subscribers in 2016 First Quarter

    The Nigerian Communications Commission report for the first quarter of 2016 indicated that MTN Nigeria lost 6.5million internet subscribers. In the report covering the first three months of the year just released by NCC, MTN which began the quarter with 39,924,737 data customers ended it with...
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    Business Glo Gains 80% Of New Internet Customers In First Quarter Of 2016

    The Nigerian Communications Commission report for the first quarter of 2016 indicated that Globacom has strengthened its position as Nigeria’s preferred network for new data subscribers. In the report covering the first three months of the year just released by NCC, Globacom recorded an...
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