The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has insisted on its directive that telecom service providers should immediately bar telephone subscribers who have failed to link their phone numbers to National Identification Numbers (NIN) on or before February 28, 2024.
The NCC has advised Nigerians using Samsung phones to immediately update the Galaxy Store application on their phones to avoid cyberattacks
Active subscriptions for telecommunications services across the mobile networks of MTN, Airtel, Glo, and 9mobile rose to 222 million at the end of 2022, representing a 14% growth for the year compared to 195 million subscriptions the country had as of December 2021.
The auction for the 3.5GHz spectrums is scheduled to hold on December 19 this year
Some officials of the different network stores said they were yet to get approval from the NCC to roll out sales of new SIM cards.
NCC has instructed telecommunications operators to block the SIM cards in 2 weeks.
The revenue of the Telcos increased from N 2.245 trillion in year 2018 to N 2.468 trillion as at the end of Year 2019.
It gained 8.302 million data subscribers when it grew from 28.934 million in December 2019 to 37.236 million by the end of May 2020.
Recent data on key industry fundamentals published by the NCC showed that the total number of broadband subscriptions grew 1.8% m/m and 19.0% y/y to 73.5 million.
Not less than 2.2 million improperly registered sim cards have been disabled from functioning across the country.
The Nigerian Communications Commission [@NgComCommission] has begun another round of compliance audit of SIM registration databases of MTN, Globacom, Airtel, 9Mobile, Ntel and other operators offering SIM-based services.
@NgComCommission has announced that it remitted the sum of N51.3 billion to the Federal Government as part of the revenue generated in the first quarter of 2019.
