rman:
A couple of years back, I said the price war will only favour the biggest operators in Telecoms in the long run.

Who started the price war?

Now, majority of our operators are not making profits from voice call and the only way to break even is to ensure calls generated on your network are terminated on your network or interconnect fee will make you run voice calls at a loss.

However, NCC got it wrong by restricting MTN in the first place. Are they trying to stifle MTN so others can catch and overtake them.

Etisalat and Airtel knows anything below what it is now is not profitable and they know if prices are similar across networks, the biggest network wins.

The price war has reached the point of backfiring for smaller operatic hence the need for court injunction to stop MTN from running a promo every other operator is running already.

That is the truth. The price war is really favouring MTN than other networks in Nigeria. Imagine MTN introducing family and friends after the ban from NCC. I still wonder what NCC is doing about this, inspite of the Mobile Number Portability, it's not helping matters yet some persons are still complaining of MTN.

asuustrike2009:

That is not true as in warri, some of us get 8k/sec

Ar u serious broda, d lowest am getting here in Bida (Niger State) is 12k ooo so tey I vex call der customer service sef bt na story den dey yarn me

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rman:
A couple of years back, I said the price war will only favour the biggest operators in Telecoms in the long run.

Who started the price war?

Now, majority of our operators are not making profits from voice call and the only way to break even is to ensure calls generated on your network are terminated on your network or interconnect fee will make you run voice calls at a loss.

However, NCC got it wrong by restricting MTN in the first place. Are they trying to stifle MTN so others can catch and overtake them.

Etisalat and Airtel knows anything below what it is now is not profitable and they know if prices are similar across networks, the biggest network wins.

The price war has reached the point of backfiring for smaller operatic hence the need for court injunction to stop MTN from running a promo every other operator is running already.

Why do you say so? NCC was just doing their job. If they don't restrict MTN, it will make the market not competitive there making smaller players withdraw from the market e.g starcomms, multi link, retel wireless e.t.c

richybanky:

Ar u serious broda, d lowest am getting here in Bida (Niger State) is 12k ooo so tey I vex call der customer service sef bt na story den dey yarn me

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Yes it's true.

asuustrike2009:
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Why do you say so? NCC was just doing their job. If they don't restrict MTN, it will make the market not competitive there making smaller players withdraw from the market e.g starcomms, multi link, retel wireless e.t.c

Starcoms, Multilinks and RelTel are CDMA operators. However, MTN didn't start the price war, AirTel did.

Lowering prices favour consumers but lowering prices with the intention of making the market leader lose customer base in a free market is not a good strategy long time because anyone can lower prices. At the end it is the small operator that will kill itself with such a strategy.

Do u see how many threads and post on social media about MTN being expensive? there are a lot and it was working until mtn decide to join the price war and they are now crying foul. Mtn hasn't broken any law.

In service industry you need to carve a niche and ensure there is something unique about your service or product in a very competitive market.

A good example is Apple products that remains very competitive even when we all know it is expensive. MTNs strategy of everywhere u go by rolling out fast outside major cities and towns is what gave them the large customer base in the first place. They didn't achieve large customer base because their calls was cheap. They spent money and invested massively onto their network in rural areas and used a first to get there strategy.

Right now, in major cities and towns, they have no advantage on Etisalat, because Etisalat is the preferred newtwork for data. So why is Etisalat that came 7yrs after and made a huge success with close to 25million subscribers still trying to take the mtn advantage away?

Number portability that people claimed will kill mtn didn't do it because before it was introduced, Nigerian market is a massive mutisiming one(people already carry multiple sims). So will u port other lines to a network u already have as alternate sim? No need.
If Etisalat feels mtn calls are too cheap, she should lower hers to 2k and let's see how one of the operators won't close shop soon.

Etisalat should go and focus on her business. This obsession with MTN didn't help GLO, and I don't think it will help Etisalat.

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rman:


Starcoms, Multilinks and RelTel are CDMA operators. However, MTN didn't start the price war, AirTel did.

Lowering prices favour consumers but lowering prices with the intention of making the market leader lose customer base in a free market is not a good strategy long time because anyone can lower prices. At the end it is the small operator that will kill itself with such a strategy.

Do u see how many threads and post on social media about MTN being expensive? there are a lot and it was working until mtn decide to join the price war and they are now crying foul. Mtn hasn't broken any law.

In service industry you need to carve a niche and ensure there is something unique about your service or product in a very competitive market.

A good example is Apple products that remains very competitive even when we all know it is expensive. MTNs strategy of everywhere u go by rolling out fast outside major cities and towns is what gave them the large customer base in the first place. They didn't achieve large customer base because their calls was cheap. They spent money and invested massively onto their network in rural areas and used a first to get there strategy.

Right now, in major cities and towns, they have no advantage on Etisalat, because Etisalat is the preferred newtwork for data. So why is Etisalat that came 7yrs after and made a huge success with close to 25million subscribers still trying to take the mtn advantage away?

Number portability that people claimed will kill mtn didn't do it because before it was introduced, Nigerian market is a massive mutisiming one(people already carry multiple sims). So will u port other lines to a network u already have as alternate sim? No need.
If Etisalat feels mtn calls are too cheap, she should lower hers to 2k and let's see how one of the operators won't close shop soon.

Etisalat should go and focus on her business. This obsession with MTN didn't help GLO, and I don't think it will help Etisalat.

True talk fam.

asuustrike2009:

That is not true as in warri, some of us get 8k/sec

its fixed at 12k per second here in abuja.I don't no why these other network providers keep making things difficult for us. Whenever mtn tries to bring down price d either go to NCC or court.if they can't stand competition de should leave na.

rman:


Starcoms, Multilinks and RelTel are CDMA operators. However, MTN didn't start the price war, AirTel did.

Lowering prices favour consumers but lowering prices with the intention of making the market leader lose customer base in a free market is not a good strategy long time because anyone can lower prices. At the end it is the small operator that will kill itself with such a strategy.

Do u see how many threads and post on social media about MTN being expensive? there are a lot and it was working until mtn decide to join the price war and they are now crying foul. Mtn hasn't broken any law.

In service industry you need to carve a niche and ensure there is something unique about your service or product in a very competitive market.

A good example is Apple products that remains very competitive even when we all know it is expensive. MTNs strategy of everywhere u go by rolling out fast outside major cities and towns is what gave them the large customer base in the first place. They didn't achieve large customer base because their calls was cheap. They spent money and invested massively onto their network in rural areas and used a first to get there strategy.

Right now, in major cities and towns, they have no advantage on Etisalat, because Etisalat is the preferred newtwork for data. So why is Etisalat that came 7yrs after and made a huge success with close to 25million subscribers still trying to take the mtn advantage away?

Number portability that people claimed will kill mtn didn't do it because before it was introduced, Nigerian market is a massive mutisiming one(people already carry multiple sims). So will u port other lines to a network u already have as alternate sim? No need.
If Etisalat feels mtn calls are too cheap, she should lower hers to 2k and let's see how one of the operators won't close shop soon.

Etisalat should go and focus on her business. This obsession with MTN didn't help GLO, and I don't think it will help Etisalat.

That's true. Etisalat can expand it's network especially broad band. By the time they do that, they will gain more subscribers. Airtel tried that last year but data easily finishes. The best strategy for etisalat is to expand it's broad band, make the consumption rate minimal like that of MTN and watch what will come out it. Secondly make calls to etisalat numbers cheaper like MTN, for example calling all etisalat lines @ 10k/sec from the first sec, Free night or weekend calls e.t.c