God bless wailers

Nigerian Communications Commission
PRESS RELEASE
NCC suspends directive on data segment price floor.
Following the concerns that visited the directive to introduce price floor for data segment of the telecommunications sector beginning from December 1, 2016, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has suspended any further action in that direction.
The decision to suspend this directive was taken after due consultation with industry stakeholders and the general complaints by Consumers across the country.
The Commission has weighed all of this and consequently asked all operators to maintain the status quo until the conclusion of study to determine retail prices for broadband and data services in Nigeria.
Recall that the Commission wrote to the Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) on November 1, 2016 on the determination of an interim price floor for data services after the stakeholder’s consultative meeting of October 19, 2016.
The decision to have a price floor was primarily to promote a level playing field for all operators in the industry, encourage small operators and new entrants.
The price floor in 2014 was N3.11k/MB but was removed in 2015. The price floor that was supposed to flag off on December 1, 2016 was N0.90k/MB.
In taking that decision, the smaller operators were exempted from the new price regime, by virtue of their small market share. The decision on the price floor was taken in order to protect the consumers who are at the receiving end and save the smaller operators from predatory services that are likely to suffocate them and push them into extinction.
The price floor is not an increase in price but a regulatory safeguard put in place by the telecommunications regulator to check anti-competitive practices by dominant operators.
This statement clarifies the insinuation in some quarters that the regulator has fixed prices for data services. This is not true because the NCC does not fix prices but provides regulatory guidelines to protect the consumers, deepen investments and safeguard the industry from imminent collapse.
Before the new suspended price floor of N0.90k/MB, the industry average for dominant operators including MTN Nigeria Communications Limited, EMTS Limited (Etisalat) and Airtel Nigeria Limited was N0.53k/MB.
Etisalat offered (N0.94k/MB), Airtel (N0.52k/MB), MTN (N0.45k/MB) and Globacom (N0.21k/MB).
The smaller operators/ new entrants charge the following: Smile Communications N0.84k/MB, Spectranet N0.58k/MB and NATCOMS (NTEL) N0.72k/MB.
The NCC as a responsive agency of government takes into consideration the feelings of the consumers and so decided to suspend the new price floor.
Signed
Tony Ojobo
Director, Public Affairs
​​​​​​NCC
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Useless people. God punish Buhari and that Minister that looks like Zakzakky

Ok

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dunkem21:
Crap

They want you not to load data today and regret tomorrow
Clueless things

Details tomorrow


Abeg, who get that.. "on the first day of Christmas.."

your evil aim towards mocking Buhari has been put to shame... Oya, go &carry wailing bowls & distribute among wailers

heavenly truth!

poor buhari...



the old man go rest today....







if I become president I swear I no go dey access internet.....
it can shorten life span....


And thank God sey thunder no dey obey humans..

if no be so,, by now we for no even see the old body burry..



God help us all, together we will over come....

Wats my business, data or no data Nigerians go survive

dunkem21:
Crap
They want you not to load data today and regret tomorrow
Clueless things
Details tomorrow
Abeg, who get that.. "on the first day of Christmas.."

Christmas don dey load be that o

Omoakinsuyi:
Useless people. God punish Buhari and that Minister that lookGods like Zakzakky

God punish the spirit of wailing...

heavenly truth!

Thank God
Some people ll still blame buhari

Yeye people.

You don't pursue the right policy the wrong way.

What the NCC is trying to accomplish is prevent predatory pricing. But they failed to bear in mind that transparency and accountability are key in achieving these things.

The market is first a deregulated one. In the immediate future, the setting of low prices will not eliminate the competition. What happened to observing the phenomenon for longer first? They are always itching to act, I guess.

Besides, every policy ought be in consonance with economic reality. Nigeria is in recession as is. The only achievable goal now is lowering prices; not compounding the mess to benefit only a few.

Whoever their economic adviser is, the person must be ignoring the relativity of economies and time. It is next to impossible for markets to become more vulnerable to a monopoly at a time like this when everyone is trying to get their head above water.

Na person wey don survive war dey think to become king.

Besides, data prices are still prohibitive to running certain businesses.

crap. nation

Baggers!

Haaa

THANK GOD OOO
Make i go gather money incase the thing come baq

This is cool

NCC has dashed my Back to Back FTC hopes...

NgeneUkwenu:


http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/216748-breaking-nigerias-ncc-suspends-data-price-increase.html

What I loved most "The Senate ordered a STOP" Thank you senate for listening to the voice of the masses

[size=13pt]Nigerians, you must share the blame.

You went and voted in a cattle rearer as your president.[/size]




[size=13pt]A man that goes to class and all he can think of, are cows.
Of course he does not understand Data[/size]


[size=13pt]Next time do not follow the lies of both Lie Lai Mohammed & Adeboye[/size]

GOD bless SARAKI for fighting for the masses

AWON WEREY

First good thing done by the senate

Good news, Commonsense is working.

Shame on NCC and FG. Una fada!!!

Senate 1-0 NCC/FG.

hmmmm their head is now correct

Ope ooo : ...nah once in a week i been plan to dey come nairaland before ooo.
#thatbrokeassniqqur!

Yes we did it. My tweet on Twitter and my calls to that Alfa has yielded fruit

Lol

Their wailing reached heaven

Stupedinluv:
Lol

U dis geh sha. Just gvin person IPC anyhow


Yeeaa.

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OZAOEKPE:
GOD bless SARAKI for fighting for the masses

He is only doing his job jooor