NCC Declares NITEL, MTEL, Others Inactive

The Nigerian
Communications Commission (NCC), has tagged Nitel, Mtel, Starcomms as inactive in a bid to restore subscribers hope.
According to a top management staff of the commission, who pleaded anonymity, the other affected network providers include, Reliance Telecoms (alias Zoom mobile) , intercellular, and mts first  communications.
Others include, Nitel, O’Net (odela Telecomm) Rainbow net, Monarch Communications, Xs Broadband, Webcom, and Disc communications.
The declaration of the inactive operators which was also available on the commission’s website, has one national carrier, one GSM operator, five Code Division Multiple Access (CDMN) operators and six Fixed/fixed wireless operators received the NCC’s flogging.
The agency explained that the affected operators were sometime ago vibrant, but could not wait to declare them inactive after a successful investigation on them.
The Tide learnt that the said operators turned inactive, sequel to the 100 per cent loss of its customers to other operators.
Our findings also revealed that the listed operators went into hiding and could no longer provide competitive services to its subscribers  who then  decided to part to other net work operators.
According to the websource, the likelihood porting was not limited to the mobile number of portability (MNP) scheme that was introduced April 2013 by concerned authorities.
It was further learnt that the affected operators had long ago, shown signs of distress in their operations.
Earlier, the NCC has said that its action was aimed at studying and circulating the exact figures of telecommunication operators in the country.

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