₦airaland Forum

I think that there is a big misunderstanding about NCC's directive to the big four operators to charge market determined prices rather than their current predatory anti-competitive data pricing that seeks to kill competition and destroy the industry. Doing otherwise would lead to an oligopolistic situation which would eventually increase prices prohibitively and threaten the same consumers that are complaining today.
I think that the problem here is that NCC has not done a good job of explaining this policy to the public leading to all the various interpretations that we are seeing, given people's sensitivity to paying market rates for data at a time like this.
It is either we support NCC to properly regulate this industry or accept the consequences of an industry that is sliding into unsustainable oligopoly. After all, NCC has consistently remained the best regulator in Nigeria which is why we have achieved the current enviable teledensity. How I wish that the CBN, NERC, SEC or all the other regulators have been as bold, balanced and progressive.