Telcos allay fears of tariff increase as NCC begins mobile termination rate review

By Prince Osuagwu, Hi-Tech Editor
Telecommunications operators in Nigeria has dismissed notions that the recent attempt by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, to commission a cost-based study to determine fresh mobile termination rates, will lead to increase in telecom tariffs in the country.
The telcos said such assumptions would only wrongly preempt the outcome of the market study and throw the industry into baseless panic mode, when in several instances price could even drop, depending on the outcome of the study.
Chairman of the Association of Licensed Telecom Operators of Nigeria, ALTON, umbrella body of telcos, Engr Gbenga Adebayo, who spoke to Vanguard exclusively sa...