Sunday, August 25, 2013

N5,000: NATCOMS gives mobile operators 21 days ultimatum



Barely three weeks of inactions following its appeal to the telecom operators in the country and petitioning the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and Ministry of Communication Technology, the National Association of Telecom Subscribers (NATCOMS) has given the operators 21 days ultimatum to respond to its N5000 compensation appeal or face stiffer actions.

DigitalSENSE Business News recalls that on August 3, NATCOMS has petitioned ALTON and copied NCC and CommTech Ministry, requesting the payment of N5000 for all the ‘sins of the mobile operators in the last 12 years.”
Some of these sins include poor quality of service, drop calls, billing errors to name a few. This is coming as NATCOMS commended MTN Ghana for being consumer-centric operator.

The National President, NATCOMS, Chief Deolu Ogunbanjo, decried that the petition of his group through the Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) may have been relegated as there was no reply from the concerned mobile network operators or ALTON which serves as the umbrella organization for them.

In addition, NATCOMS lamented the non-commencement of action by NCC or even by the Ministry of Communication Technology.

According to NATCOMS is not relenting, but still expecting reply on its request from all the concerned organizations and agencies of government.

Meanwhile MTN Ghana, the country’s largest mobile operator in terms of subscribers, has announced that it will offer a percentage of its service charge to compensate subscribers affected by recent network disruptions, Modern Ghana reports.

An estimated 15 per cent of MTN Ghana’s subscribers in the capital of Accra have been experiencing signal interruptions for the last couple of weeks, and the company attributed the outage to ‘an extensive ongoing modernisation and transformation.

DigitalSENSE Business News gathered that MTN Ghana went ahead to state that during the process, the network interface link connection on the switch experienced intermittent errors resulting in the links failing.

“As a result, voice and data service delivery were affected, which made it difficult for subscribers to make and receive calls, as well as data and SMS,” MTN Ghana said.

Further, DigitalSENSE Business News investigations showed that MTN Ghana faces a fine by industry regulator, the National Communication Authority (NCA), if it failed to submit a compensation plan in the coming week.


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