The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has concluded
\nplan to invoke another round of sanction on telecommunication operators
\nbeginning from September if the quality of service remained the same.<\/p>\n
The Communications Director, Public Affairs, Mr Tony Ojobo,
\nmade this known to The Tide in an interview on Thursday in Abuja.<\/p>\n
He said that at the time of the last sanction operators made
\npresentation on the issue of Key Performance Indicators (KPI\u2019s) at the meeting
\nwith the Commission.<\/p>\n
Ojobo said that at the meeting the Commission agreed on a
\nmedium base line of KPI that the operators needed to begin to work on progressively
\nuntil they met the Commission\u2019s ultimate KPI.<\/p>\n
He added that at the meeting the NCC gave the service
\nproviders a\u00a0\u00a0 September\u00a0 deadline to ensure a progressive improvement
\non the poor quality of service.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut at the meeting it was agreed that by September if the
\nquality of service remained as it was then the commission would invoke another
\nsanction.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo because of that they are all working on their networks
\nto make sure that quality of service improves. We are noticing some improvement
\nin some of the networks in term of quality of service.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is not really what it should be but I think it is better
\nthan what we had two months ago as at the time of the fine,\u2019\u2019 Ojobo said.<\/p>\n
According to him, the operators wrote to NCC to update the
\ncommission on what they had done so far to improve on the quality of service.<\/p>\n
He said that the commission noticed that there were number
\nof networks that were expanding and also upgrading their networks.<\/p>\n
Ojobo said that the operators were putting in new technology
\nto address the challenges that had resulted to the poor quality of service in
\nthe country.<\/p>\n
According to him, the issue of drop calls has really
\nreduced, few months ago every particular call made drops before one finishes
\nhis conversation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is an indication that there is some improvement, NCC
\ndoes depend on personal or consumers experience to determine weather there is
\nimprovement until the commission undergoes a drive test.<\/p>\n
Ojobo added that a drive test was when the commission\u2019s
\nmonitoring team drove through the city with their equipment which took the
\nfrequency reading and later analysed with the reading that would be taken from
\nthe premises of the service providers.<\/p>\n
He said that the commission had its independent consultant
\nthat carried out the drive test across the area that took the measurement which
\nwould later be compared with what the commission obtained from the service
\nproviders equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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