₦airaland Forum

SporaD8:
can't they find alternative to diesel generator?

Don't mind them. There is alternative to diesel generator... like the LPG gas-powered ones, which are much cheaper to refuel. They have refused to use those ones.

donshaddow:
You forgot something VERY important!

They pay AGBERO and OMO ONILE on every diesel discharged and every time the gate is opened for servicing either the tower or generator.

I weep for my country!

guy...dez nothing like omo onile in the state where i am.....that point doesnt count

tunergy:
You nailed it,
I get pissed off when telcos complain of high running cost.
I pay for premium service and hardly get value for my money, but since NCC is just a name, i will just suffer in silence.

NCC is the most useless regulatory body in Nigeria. They just fold their hands a watch Telco milk d citizens dry

dominique:
Also they have pay taxes as well as dues imposed on them by NCC and other bodies we don't hear of. And let's not forget why the business was set-up in the first place, PROFIT! Yet some people feel it's justifiable
to steal from them in the name of cheats and tweaks. In future if they start their own business, they should not complain if their wares are stolen from under their noses. It's Karma at work.



That's going back to that hellish Nitel era.Some phone/internet addicts would just die.

before you continue to blindly support these Telco's...go and bring reports of their daily/weekly/month and annual profit and revenue so we can compare......
#mtcheeew

laudate:
What type of power solutions? Are you talking about solar systems or gas-powered systems?

And what kind of 'retrofitting,' do you carry out at the base stations?

Like power plant retrofit, we:

Decommission old ACDG and replace with new ACDGs.

Swapout rectifier and ATS systems and install new DCDGs to replace the old ACDGs (where available)

Swapout old battery cabinet and install a new one.

Etc

The type of power solution we put in place is the
Solar Hybrid Systems.

rman:
Industry is different from industry. Same way u can't blame Apple for making billion dollar profits.

Telecoms industry is so volatile and flexible that, what seems profitable today will burn your fingers tomorrow. Investors study trends and the trend for telecoms in Nigeria is downwards.

We can all help fast track the collapse it or face reality and make it survive.

If it was so profitable and easy, why did NITEL and MTEL fail?

if its not profitable why are MTN,GLO,AIRTEL and ETISALAT break even almost every year? Now they're even expected to be making more money on internet services as Nigerians are relying more and more on ecommerce more than ever before.

rman:
Industry is different from industry. Same way u can't blame Apple for making billion dollar profits.

Telecoms industry is so volatile and flexible that, what seems profitable today will burn your fingers tomorrow. Investors study trends and the trend for telecoms in Nigeria is downwards.

We can all help fast track the collapse it or face reality and make it survive.

If it was so profitable and easy, why did NITEL and MTEL fail?

Puh-leeze! NITEL and MTEL did not fail because of high diesel cost! Please get your facts right. It was a combination of overbearing govt influence, poor management style, gross inefficiency,corruption and inability to compete with the new GSM companies that killed NITEL and MTEL.

talk2myles:
guy...dez nothing like omo onile in the state where i am.....that point doesnt count

Tell them, jare. Omonile is restricted to just a few places. And how much do they even pay them?? Is it millions? Mtcheew!

talk2myles:
guy...dez nothing like omo onile in the state where i am.....that point doesnt count

Well, except for North, most part of East, south and west have lots of dem.

Especially cities that are commercially viable. Lagos, Portharcourt, Warri, Onithsa etc.

Consultville:
Telecommunications tower operators spend some N175 million every day on diesel which is used to power generators at their towers housing base transceiver stations (BTS) that make it possible for Nigerians to use GSM service to make and receive calls.


http://nairametrics.com/see-how-much-telecom-tower-operators-spend-daily-to-power-bts/

How much is the impact of these telecom masts on the lives, health, property and the environment of Nigerians?

The so-called promoting regulatory agency has failed in ensuring that the lives of citizens and the environment are taken into consideration before approvals to install base stations are granted.

Both the NCC and NESREA (the authorised regulatory agencies for telecoms issues) are always at loggerheads and both DON'T have emissions detecting equipment to determine the levels of radiofrequency radiation being poured out on the heads and skins of Nigerians.

As a result, many have died from health-related exposures, from collapsing masts in residential areas, from contaminated wells and boreholes, afflicted from immuno-deficiency ailments and diverse pathologies including cancers, internal organs failure, sterility, barrenness, et.c. The level of electromagnetic pollution as a result of indiscriminately located masts is scary.

Yet, the operators are in denial as the truth doesn't sit well with the balance sheets.

kaeforum:
We have filling stations and we run a gen evryday, thats 40 litres tops everyday, while I agree that its on the high side, you have to bare in mind that these guys charge the highest for services 70 percent of which arent rendered at all, they enjoy near monopoly status in the country
evade taxes, and engage in capital flight as all their profits are shipped to their home countries abroad, the only thing we get from them are the paltry wages and occasional handouts no thing more, theres no development , no tech transfer, imagine even things like bottled water are imported from sa, so our local content is excluded from their business.

Bros, hold brake..! Haba! There is no single telco that imports bottled water from South Africa (SA). To do what, now??

There is tech transfer...to a certain level. Don't joke with our telecoms boys, oh. I remember as a very young corper when MTN was rolling out its base stations, they had thought it would take our local engineers about 12 months to learn GSM technology and grasp the rudiments of erecting towers/masts and setting up base stations. Omo, they were shocked when our engineers started installing base transceiver stations on their own, unsupervised within 3 months and those BTS sites were fully functional!

Those white SA engineers used to marvel. One of the local teams was also mandated to get local alternatives to site equipment, which used to be imported. Within 8 months, about 65% of the equipment on the BTS sites was being fabricated locally or sourced in-country.

When it comes to telecoms, we have local engineers that can hold their own with the best teams anywhere in the world!

rman:
I know they will not agree with your post but your are the only reasonable individual here.

See as everybody shouts profits not knowing this is an industry that continues to drop prices even when operating cost /cost of diesel isn't dropping over the years. This is an industry that almost all the operators are laying of staff codedly because it isn't as rosy as it use to be. This is the only industry that pays tax for the same base station to three tiers of government (LGA, state and fg).
If nothing changes soon, Nigerians will be shocked because no where in the world are operators generating their own power, running their own fibre, providing their own security for base stations.

Government folds her hands and do nothing but collects money and the people think they should not make profit because they are in business. The same people shouting profit are the ones hacking the systems in collaboration with insiders (cheats),using cheats daily(non revenue generating traffic) and the number is massive.

In the last two years, the year on year profit of these operators are actually going down apart from Etisalat. If something isn't done many more will become unemployed because things are definitely not as rosy as Nigerians think for these operators.

Guy, then let them form a pressure group and approach govt directly on the amount of taxes being paid to the 3 levels of govt. This should be harmonised at one source!

Secondly, they should deploy better and more advanced information security systems to get rid of hackers and cheats. Proper monitoring and surveillance can resolve this and they know it.

The trick is always to be one step ahead, of the intruders.

One of the reasons their profit is going down, is because most of the telcos enjoyed a 10-year tax-holiday pioneer status from inception, which came to an end about 2-3 years ago. Instead of them to have made provision for the tax liability from inception, they failed to do so. And now they are bearing the brunt!

All said and done, they are still making money from Nigerian subscribers despite the poor services. Their profit still outweighs the expenses they have incurred.

The reason why wages and co., in the telecom companies are dropping is varied. One of them is that the telcos do not want anything to affect their pre-defined profit margin, so they would rather reduce wages and other expenses.

Secondly, inflation has caught up in a big way with what the purchasing power of those earning those wages. What 100k used to buy in the past, 350k cannot buy it anymore these days.

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