cecegorz:

Don't be too hot headed to reason.
Read that report again, and my initial comment. I also thought the fine was ridiculous until I saw the NCC's statement that the Telcos were warned of a fine of N200k per single unregistered line.
Now ask yourself why would 3 Telcos comply to the directive and not have a single unregistered line still in operations while MTN allows over 5 million unregistered lines in operations.
We all know the economic sabotage these lines cause here, including but not limited to high increase in unresolved kidnap cases because the callers can't be traced.
What we should be discussing is whether NCC will negotiate a discount for them or insist on exacting the stipulated N200k each for every single one of those 5 million active lines.
We all long for our country to be great but when it comes to applying consequences of flouting the law, we bring in sentiments. Go and find out how much EU/US fine fortune 500 companies that flout laws over there, including Microsoft, BP, VW etc... You can go bankrupt for all they care, but every other company must know that rules are meant to be obeyed, that is how to build a working society.

Who told u the other three complied? U see, u are discussing with an insider.

NCC collects fee for every active SIM in the country and every sim rolled out must be approved by them. Did ncc return the monthly rental fee paid for these 5 million lines? Do u know while NCC is doing theirs, dss invited all operators over to discuss the recent disconnections that lead to serious crowd at Mtn offices.

Some customers even went to court.

I'm not saying mtn has done no wrong but this brazen attitude of government to the 6th biggest investor in Nigeria is very bad.


NCC is only capitalising on the fact that Nigeria lacks a proper national identity system. In developed countries, when buying a sim, your ID card is all the registration that is required because they have a working system. Telecos are registering, banks are registering, NIMC is registering, INEC is registering etc. Telecos operators are only doing what really is the job of government in a working system.

And for the kidnap cases, it is our security agencies that are doing lazy job. The information on location of every caller is readily available but it is the same government that put a clause in NCC act that is criminal to reveal information about sim location and the process is ridiculously long to get approval for such.

Why not wait and see where this will end? We as insiders already know the end point. Our politicians want to take over mtn, it is as simple as that.

Bokoharam has bombed hundreds of base stations in the north, is the government paying them for their damaged investment because security is their baby? No.

Don't think this for u an I. It is simply politics. Their was even a time Etisalat took mtn to court for having on net calls of around 6 naira. Is it mtn that introduced the price war?

See all other operators know the market is saturated. Therefore the only way to grow is to take out of the operator with 50% market share. If number portability didn't do it, fines will do it.

***dancing Shoki***

Who needs mtn when i have my etisalat.