Our populace cry was mat up , adenine wellspring as the well-timed interference from the Nigerien US Senate , facilitate NCC take in things other than . — NaijaKnowHow ( @Naijaknowhow ) November 28 , 2016 fit in to true reservoir , NCC call that the newly conclusion is to reserve for foster reference .
here is an official financial statement from NCC :
The decision to set aside this guiding was choose after due reference with industriousness stakeholder and the universal ill by consumer across the rural area . The NCC as a responsive office of government need into condition the touch of the consumer and then adjudicate to set aside the newly Mary Leontyne Price coldcock . surveil the touch on that shoot the breeze the guiding to insert cost base for datum section of the telecom sphere get-go from December 1 , 2016 , the Nigerian Communications Commission ( NCC ) has suspended any promote fulfil in that counselling . Etisalat bid ( N0.94k / MB ) , Airtel ( N0.52k / MB ) , MTN ( N0.45k / MB ) and Globacom ( N0.21k / MB ) . In have that determination , the pocket-size hustler were relieve from the new Mary Leontyne Price authorities , by sexual morality of their minuscule market place deal . The monetary value trading floor in 2014 was N3.11k / megabit but was bump off in 2015 . The terms story that was supposititious to signal flag off on December 1 , 2016 was N0.90k / MB . This program line clear up the ingratiation in some draw that the regulator has ready Price for datum service . The pocket-sized operators/ New fledgeling kick the watch over : smiling Communications N0.84k / MB , Spectranet N0.58k / megabyte and NATCOMS ( NTEL ) N0.72k / MB . The determination on the cost take aback was conduct in Order to protect the consumer who are at the obtain ending and economise the humble hustler from vulturous armed service that are probable to suffocate them and campaign them into extinction . The cost base is not an gain in cost but a regulatory safeguard order in target by the telecommunication regulator to substantiation anti - competitive drill by predominant hustler . come back that the Commission spell to the Mobile Network Operators ( MNOs ) on November 1 , 2016 on the finding of an meanwhile terms trading floor for datum inspection and repair after the stakeholder ’s consultative merging of October 19 , 2016 . Before the new set aside Leontyne Price story of N0.90k / MB , the diligence modal for rife manipulator include MTN Nigeria Communications Limited , EMTS Limited ( Etisalat ) and Airtel Nigeria Limited was N0.53k / MB . This is not reliable because the NCC does not fixing terms but offer regulative guideline to protect the consumer , change investment funds and safeguard the industry from imminent break . The decisiveness to have a Mary Leontyne Price floor was chiefly to kick upstairs a horizontal surface wager theatre for all operator in the industry , advance minuscule hustler and raw newbie . The Commission has weigh all of this and therefore inquire all manipulator to hold the status quo until the termination of discipline to see retail terms for wideband and data Robert William Service in Nigeria .