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Nigerians have vowed to drag the federal government to court over approval of a 50 percent increase in calls, data, and other telecommunication tariffs.
In an instant multiplier effect, Point of Sales Operators have hinted at plans to increase their service charges.
The President of the National Association of Telecoms Subscribers, Adeolu Ogunbanjo and the National Spokesperson for the Association of Mobile Money & Bank Agents in Nigeria, Ogungbayi Ganiyu made these positions known on Monday in separate exclusive interviews with DAILY POST.
This comes as the Nigerian Communications Commission on Monday gave Mobile Network Operators approval to increase service tariffs by at most 50 percent.
DAILY POST reports that the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Bosun Tijani, had hinted that telecom tariffs will go up by either 30 or 50 percent.
His position came from a fallout of a meeting between him and operators who had proposed a 100 percent tariff increase.
DAILY POST reports that the latest telecom tariff hike approval comes 13 years after NCC announced price template in 2013.
Meanwhile, with the latest tariff hike approval, it means that upon implementation, Nigerians may be paying N16.5 per minute for calls from N11, the cost of SMS to N6 from N4, and the cost of 1 gigabit of data – N431.25.
Also, telcos may rank in N6.7 trillion annually in revenue from calls only with the new tariff regime; this is because 2023 national telephone traffic data showed that total outgoing telephone traffic was 205.3 billion minutes, while incoming traffic stood at 203.2 billion minutes.
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