A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday struck out an
application by telecommunication company, MTN, seeking a long adjournment in the suit filed against it by its competitor, Etisalat.
Etisalat had headed for the court over an allegation that the Nigerian Communications Commission was giving MTN market advantage over it.

The plaintiff is aggrieved with the MTN’s “Family and
Friends” promo, which offers a call rate of 11 kobo per
second to eight MTN subscribers and two non-MTN
subscribers.
Etisalat argued that MTN’s “Family and Friends” promo
was launched in violation of NCC’s regulation, adding that the promo package was restricting outgoing call traffic to smaller operators “by pricing on-net tariffs lower so as to make off-net calls unattractive.”
Etisalat said MTN was posing a threat to its business
survival, adding that if the court did not urgently hear the
suit, its business was liable to being eroded within a very
short time.

Subsequently, Justice Mohammed Idris had, on July 21,
granted the application seeking an urgent hearing of the
suit during the court’s long vacation.
But at the resumed hearing on Monday, counsel for MTN, Olasupo Sasore (SAN), appeared in court with an
application contesting the urgency claimed by Etisalat.
Sasore argued that contrary to the claim by the plaintiff,
there was nothing urgent in the matter to warrant it being
heard during the court’s vacation.
However, counsel for Etisalat, Kola Awodein (SAN), told
the court that though Sasore only served him with a copy of the application in the evening of last week Friday, he had already filed his reply.
Awodein also said that the lawyer representing NCC in the matter, Prof. Taiwo Osipitan (SAN), had pleaded with him that he was just briefed and he would need time to study the file.
According to him, all the parties had agreed to come back to court on September 25, 2015.

Following this development, the judge, consequently,
struck out MTN’s application and adjourned till September 25, 2015 for further hearing.
Etisalat, in the main suit, is seeking a review of a decision
said to be recently taken by NCC allowing 30 per cent
differential between MTN’s off-net and on-net retail
mobile voice tariffs. According to Etisalat, with the said 30 per cent differential between its off-net and on-net retail mobile voice tariffs, MTN had been able to create what is called a “calling club,” an example of which is its “Family and Friends” promo.

www.punchng.com/news/etisalat-battles-mtn-over-promo/#disqus_thread

okay

Smh

This thread go reach fp

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lolz @ smaller operators . water knows its level

Yeye people....instead of them to look for how to beat down their own price to spoil mtn market ....should I also sue dem for illegal packing of my credit?? Awon werey



MTN sef na fo0ls but for the FnF dem try

Etisalat should just reduce their call rate to 4kobo per sec since Mtn is looking for competition

Thanks etisalat, tho ur network is poor in my area, someone should sue dem with all dez der, text BJ to get Bl*wjob tips

And the competitions continue.....

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okay

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awon wharey meji

Omo dis Nollywood film btw dis two go swt gan...who go win?

Mtchewwww

I call this nonsense, instead of Etisalat to concentrate on satisfying their customers, they are busy suing mtn. What will their customers gain from this? You can only see this in Nigeria. I blame ncc

in nkem owoh's voice "TWO THIEVES"

Hmmmm!

Well, since they are fighting for their pockets and not for the masses, I DON'T CARE.

I disagree. It is Because Saka ported from Etisalat To MTN..

Orishirishi!!!

Thank God for Globacom...

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Empty hen

What exactly are they trying to say?

let the court dismissed this case, so dat there will be competition in d telecommunication market...eti,glo and airtel will forced to reduce there's to 8k/sec or so...

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Kontonu

Etisalat pls just spoil market for mtn by reducing ur call rate to 4kobo per second

D lowest rate mtn is displaying on zone package is 12kobo per second

Mtn cheating Nigerians since 2002
#AwonWayray

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 else 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 operators hence the need for court injunction to stop MTN from running a promo every other operator is running already.

What took them so long to head to court, have been waiting for this to happen from the days of esaycliq. NCC hmmmm

richybanky:
Etisalat pls just spoil market for mtn by reducing ur call rate to 4kobo per second

D lowest rate mtn is displaying on zone package is 12kobo per second

Mtn cheating Nigerians since 2002
#AwonWayray

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