Nigerians have for long complained about
getting unsolicited text messages from
network service providers. The Nigerian
Communications Commission (NCC), in a
move to stop this has now said it would not
hesitate to penalize network providers that
failed to keep its regulation on unsolicited
messages to subscribers.
In an interview with newsmen on Wednesday,
Tony Ojobo, the Director, Public Affairs, NCC,
said that the commission would not support
network providers to send unsolicited
messages to subscribers, as it infringed on
their privacy.
“The issue of unsolicited messages has
posed a challenge which the commission has
been contending with till today.
“An unsolicited text message gives a
subscriber no choice to receive or not, so the
commission had to intervene within the limits
of its enabling laws and regulation.
“We have had series of meeting with the
stakeholders and telecom operators on this
issue; we cannot deny the fact that we had
received series of complaints from
subscribers; we are quite aware of it.
“We are in the process of Vast Technical
Frame Work to keep track of those sending
this unsolicited messages and to see that
they are properly sanctioned,” Ojobo said.
The NCC Public Affairs Director assured
subscribers that the commission would
sanction network providers appropriately
once they were able to identify the source of
such unsolicited messages.
He added that some of the sources were
untraceable for now because they were being
sent through the internet.
“To protect the interest of the subscribers,
the NCC in the past, has been able to protect
and stop unsolicited messages whose
sources we were able to identify.
“Those issues I believe will be resolved very
soon with the series of meetings we are
having with the telecom providers.
Ojobo added that the commission would also
penalize any erring Value Added Service
provider (VAS) that failed to comply with the
commission’s guideline on unsolicited Short
Messaging Services (SMS)to subscribers.
In a short opinion poll by information Nigeria,
telecoms subscribers revealed that MTN
sends unsolicited SMS the most, followed by
Airtel and Etisalat. Globacom also sends,
they claimed, but not as much as the other
three networks.


www.informationng.com/2015/01/ncc-to-sanction-network-service-providers-over-unsolicited-messages.html

Ope o. We can finally be free from all those yeye messages

They shouldnt sanction them, rather they should push for laws that will enable me sue them to the tune of $1b for
1. Invasion of privacy
2. Mouth watering empty offers with intent to defraud.
3. Causing bodily harm to my fingers while deleting their junks.
4. BP raising texts of having won stuff thats non existent.
5. Depleting my account by forced subscribing to stuff i dont even know the head or tail.

Nonsense!

I hate these unsolicited messages more than I hate the skirmishing I see always in the Politics section between PDP and APC loyalists.

There's no more element of urgency these days in hearing my SMS notification chime out of my cellphone.

NCC well done that's if it's true.

"We can not deny the fact that we had received series of complains". . . Is it that this NCC members don't also receive same text as ordinary subscribers or they are on different networks than the ones we use. Gooosh!! Please don't gimme that. Also they should remember that its not just text but also unsolicited calls.

It's about time

is getting out of hand. NCC una well donne