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January 18, 2024 NCC Suspends Barring Of GLO Customers From Calling MTN Subscribers
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NCC Suspends Barring Of GLO Customers From Calling MTN Subscribers

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) suspended its earlier plan to bar Glo subscribers from calling MTN lines for 21 days.

The commission disclosed this in a statement signed by its Director of Public Affairs, Reuben Mouka, as a follow-up to its pre-disconnection notice issued on January 8.

In the first notice, the commission stated that it had approved MTN Nigerian Communications Plc. to commence the phased disconnection of Globacom Limited on January 18, 2024, due to a long-standing interconnection debt dispute between the parties.

Announcing its extension, the statement said the commission had put the phased disconnection on hold for 21 days.

January 8, 2024 Glo Subscribers To Be Barred From Calling MTN Lines — NCC
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Glo Subscribers To Be Barred From Calling MTN Lines — NCC

Due to unresolved interconnect charges, subscribers on the Globacom network will soon be unable to make calls to MTN lines.

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) made this announcement in a public notice on Monday, signed by Reuben Muoka, Director of the Public Affairs Department.

According to the notice, the NCC granted partial approval for the disconnection of Globacom from MTN Nigeria Communications Plc. Globacom was allowed to respond to MTN's application and present its case. Still, after examining the circumstances, the NCC found that Globacom lacked sufficient or justifiable reasons for non-payment of the interconnect charges.

The NCC stated that, after 10 days from the date of the notice, Globacom subscribers will no longer be able to make calls to MTN numbers but will still be able to receive calls. The partial disconnection will not affect inbound calls to the Globacom network.

This is not the first instance of Glo subscribers facing disconnection from MTN services over interconnect charges. In 2019, MTN temporarily disconnected Glo subscribers due to a N4bn debt, following a directive from the NCC. In December 2018, the NCC allowed mobile network operators to disconnect other operators with outstanding interconnect debts.

Interconnect charges are fees that telecom operators pay each other for calls terminating on their networks. According to an MTN source, Glo owes approximately N6bn in interconnect fees. As of now, Glo has not provided any official comment on the matter.

November 5, 2021 NCC Fixes 5G Reserve Price At N75bn
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NCC Fixes 5G Reserve Price At N75bn

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has fixed the reserve price for the auction of the fifth generation (5G) spectrum at N75 billion ($197.4 million), noting the exercise will take place on December 13, 2021.

The NCC, which explained in detail to a group of the telecommunications stakeholders in Lagos, also gave timelines, strategy and comments of telecommunications operators to the draft information memorandum (IM) for the auction of the 3.5GHz spectrum band, as part of its 5G technology deployment plan.

The commission plans to conduct the 5G spectrum auction with a reserve price starting at $197,400,000 for two lots of 100 MHz on offer in the first phase of the auction in the 3.5GHz band while an Initial Bid Deposit (IBD) equal to 10 per cent of the reserve price will be adopted in line with the previous auction.

The NCC said it plans to use the Ascending Clock Auction which is software based. It said provisions have been made for manual auction should the auction software fail during the auction process.

NCC plans to have a mock auction on December 6, 2021 which shall precede the main auction on December 13, 2021.

July 16, 2021 Subjecting INEC Power To NCC Is Unconstitutional – Tambuwal
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Subjecting INEC Power To NCC Is Unconstitutional – Tambuwal

Former Speaker, House of Representatives, AMINU TAMBUWAL, has said that the decision of the Senate to subject INECs constitutional power to conduct elections to the Nigerian Communications Commission and the National Assembly is patently unconstitutional.

TAMBUWAL, who is also the governor of Sokoto State, in a statement he issued in Abuja, said INEC constitutional power could not be shared with any institution.

He said for the avoidance of doubt, Section 78 of the Constitution provides that the Registration of voters and the conduct of elections shall be subject to the direction and supervision of the Independent National Electoral Commission.

TAMBUWAL was reacting to the decision of the Senate to reject electronic transmission of election results during the debate on the electoral act amendment bill.

Senators had voted publicly along party lines over section 52(3) of the electoral act amendment bill, which deals with electronic transmission of poll results.

At the end of voting, 28 Senators mostly from the PDP voted for the original amendment in the report while 52 Senators mostly from the APC voted for the amendment as proposed by Senator SABI ABDULLAHI.

This means the majority of Senators voted that INEC may consider electronic transmission provided the national network coverage is adjudged to be adequate and secure by NCC and approved by the National Assembly.

Earlier, the Senate was plunged into a rowdy session as the lawmakers contested the amendment of section 52(3) of the electoral act amendment bill.

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