NCC To Review Phone Tariffs

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on Wednesday announced the commencement of mobile voice termination rates review for telecommunication industries in the country.

Professor Umar Garba Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman, NCC disclosed this during the stakeholders’ forum on the Cost Based Study for the determination of mobile voice termination rate for the telecom industry in Abuja.

According to Danbatta, the review is to achieve full effective participatory regulation in the telecom sector.

He said: “It is very important we ensure that interconnect services are not only fairly priced and non-discriminative but should reflect the cost of providing such services in the market. It is in this regard that the Commission has decided to review the rates set in its 2013 Determination in the light of current market realities.”

“This study also provide the opportunity to thoroughly examine the emergence of grey market activities in the telecoms industry in Nigeria such as call refilling, call masking, and sim-box fraud as a result of the international traffic.

“The supply of industry statistical data is most critical to the success of determining appropriate interconnection termination rates for the telecoms industry,” he added.