NCC Fines MTN, Globacom A Total Of N34m For Breach Of Rules

THE Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) has disclosed during the weekend that it has issued a fresh fine of  N34 million to MTN Nigeria and Globacom Ltd  for breach of the Mobile Number Portability business rules and regulations.

The disclosure which was made in its “2015 Q4 Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Reports meeting’’ indicated  that Globacom and Mtn got N22million and N12million respectively, according to reports by the News Agency of Nigeria, in Lagos.

Explaining further, NCC also resolved during the meeting emphatically resolved to enforce its regulations particularly, monitoring all the activities as well as ensuring that it sanctions erring companies on MNP process time obligations adding that it would address all cases of port request rejections which it noted was becoming rampant.

The commission said a series of compliance checks were carried out regarding timer violations by donor operators with respect to “validation and deactivation responses’’, which had timelines of two hours and one hour.

“The company initiated a corporate port out request from MTN to Glo via lead Mobile Station International Subscriber Directory Number (MSISDN): 07036735494 on August 11, 2015 at 1.20 p.m. but was partially completed as at 11.22 am on August 14, 2015.”