naylove:
i thought your agitations were for <b>ginuwine <\b> reasons."BB SIGNALS....

soe: Nairalander lets reason naaa...if u say d 1.7billion shud be shared as credit to d 99million subscribers,den each subcriber will get only 17naira credit.....r u happy
U better stop ctiticising NCC, dey wud collect d fine and return it to govt. Purse...for our use...and as a lesson to d operators....chi ke na

ajbabs: @miteolu,
This is not the first time NCC will punish those extortioners(mtn, glo, airtel ,etc)and as in the past money goes to the networks' customers, so also will it be this time around.

T.Moni:


In those countries you dont run over 15000 20KVA diesel generators 24hrs per day and consumes over 5000 litres of diesel per month to keep up the network.
In those countries you dont battle area boys every time you need to enter your base station to maintain or refuel.
In those countries you dont battle fibre vandals causing service failures
In thise countries you dont pay multiple taxations to all the organs of government.
In thos countries you dont communities making multiple demands on your base stations.

the networks are spending billions of dollar to expand and maintain the network. the investors are the most impacted in terms of revenue loss.

canuck:

Yeah, yeah! Nigerians already pay more than 10 times the call rates of Kenyans, and there is no regular power in Kenya, Al-Shabab terrorists are blowing up Nairobi, etc.

Check-out the Telcos' profit margins in Nigeria versus other countries and you will see that Telcos are milking Nigerians dry!

Telcos should pay-up and step-up their services to the people jor.

tiwola: I believe they should be shut down. And here is why. First things first, I'm an MTN subscriber who has had his credit vanish periodically not less than 10 times since the last major 'vanishing series' that raised such hue and cry the last time.
Can't toss the line because it's the soul of my business. Can't complain because 180 doesn't work- it's purely a radio station now.
There's no mass action or subscriber protest like the last time, so the network continues to rob me of my credit with impunity.
Is it feasible that they return all monies subscribers lose on a day to day basis? No. They'd have to give away all the cash they make per day.
Can they pay these fines? Yes cos its simply a slap on the wrist for them.
Should they be fined at all? Yes. Their terrible services demand that they pay for duping Nigerians.
So why won't they pay? Simple. Because this is the first time they're being asked to do such. If they pay this, then a precedent would have been set and since their services won't improve anytime soon, they'll have to pay more fines soon enough.

So please, much as I despise this government, I'm with them on this. These conmen have to pay someone, even if its not me.

My only wish is that the money should be directed by GEJ into his electricity projects to help the telcos too. The use of generators at their base stations is one of the reasons we pay such high tarriffs afterall.

yeswecan: Let me give a practical bend to this report :

There is no such thing as MTN or Glo - GSM companies are brand names. Brand names or companies don't pay tax. You cannot impose a fine MTN because it (MTN) doesn't exist. Only people pay tax or fines. When you speak of a fine on GSM companies what you are actually saying is a fine on the share holders, on the staff , or, on the [b]subscribers[/b]. These are the three strands that make up any company on earth.

It takes no Phd, then, to deduce that a fine on any company is on the consumers - directly. And so is taxes. That is the stupidity of NCC's claim - They supposedly penalized the GSM companies for poor quality of service rendered to subscribers and impose a penalty on the subscribers.

T.Moni:


In those countries you dont run over 15000 20KVA diesel generators 24hrs per day and consumes over 5000 litres of diesel per month to keep up the network.
In those countries you dont battle area boys every time you need to enter your base station to maintain or refuel.
In those countries you dont battle fibre vandals causing service failures
In thise countries you dont pay multiple taxations to all the organs of government.
In thos countries you dont communities making multiple demands on your base stations.

the networks are spending billions of dollar to expand and maintain the network. the investors are the most impacted in terms of revenue loss.

mutiply: Dese companies shud just bribe dem bt firstly, report d mata to sss cause its obvious dat ncc is broke,den invite nollywood camera men to film d exchange,its d reignin tin in town nw and it pays,ask otedola if u tink am lyin.

mutiply: Dese companies shud just bribe dem bt firstly, report d mata to sss cause its obvious dat ncc is broke,den invite nollywood camera men to film d exchange,its d reignin tin in town nw and it pays,ask otedola if u tink am lyin.