The Senate on Wednesday asked the Nigerian Communications Commission to immediately stop planned data tariff hike.
The Senate said before any such hike could be announced all parties should be consulted.

http://punchng.com/breaking-senate-orders-ncc-stop-planned-data-tariff-hike/

Details later??
Make NCC and Telcos no go settle these senators

KingRex1:
Details later??
Make NCC and Telcos no go settle these senators

I hope not.

These people are very wicked.
Phone price:High
Rice price:High
Fuel price:High
Transport:High
Pure water:High
Lie rate of these leaders:High
And now data price:High


And yet they say they are helping the country

Segadem:
[size=23pt] Bad news for Mtn [/size]

ha ha ha

pachman:
These people are very wicked.
Phone price:High
Rice price:High
Fuel price:High
Transport:High
Pure water:High
Lie rate of these leaders:High
And now data price:High


And yet they say they are helping the country

they are only helping themselves.

In a country governed by mediocres and charlatans, at a time when prices of everything keeps escalating, data was the only thing that remain cheap and affordable to Nigerians...
I just pray this news is true because data hike will further compound the woes of the poor masses.

This Telecommunication Companies are quiet dubious. I am sure that NCC didn't give them any directive to hike prices. They are a cartel that took the decision unilaterally and were just trying to rope NCC in after bribing one or two persons there. Awon Ole

Move good

Martins301:
This Telecommunication Companies are quiet dubious. I am sure that NCC didn't give them any directive to hike prices. They are a cartel that took the decision unilaterally and were just trying to rope NCC in after bribing one or two persons there. Awon Ole

The NCC actually gave the providers the new ground rules that would have resulted in big increases in data rates across board. For instance, whereas Glo and MTN currently have a floor of 21k and 84k per MB respectively, the NCC issued the directive that each of the big four at least, that is, MTN, Glo, Airtel, and Etisalat must from tomorrow charge a minimum of 90k per MB!

Glo, for instance, would have been forced to increase its data charges nearly four-fold overnight!...

At first, I didn't believe the NCC would actually ever decree foolish things such as price-fixing, until I read it's press release of today which contains the details of what it had mandated. Please read it if you haven't already.

If the quality of the members of the board of the NCC is a direct measure of those of other boards in this country, then we are in serious trouble and under the yoke of pedestrian and bad leadership. Hmm.

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