The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is working to streamline data services for the nation’s 153 million subscribers by limiting the available tariff plans to just seven.
This initiative aims to simplify the experience for consumers while ensuring transparency and better management of data services across the country.
The NCC’s move is part of ongoing efforts to regulate and improve the telecommunications sector, addressing concerns about excessive tariffs and complexity in pricing.
This development is coming against several complaints and confusions that have greeted close to 400 different tariff plans currently in existence. A document sighted by The Guardian shows that there are 369 tariff plans for both voice and data services in the sector, largely from mobile network operators (MNOs) – MTN, Airtel, Globacon and 9mobile.
But the Director of Consumer Affairs, Nigerian Communications Commission ((NCC) Dr Ikechukwu Adinde, at a media capacity training for journalists in Lagos, recently, said the Commission is working to streamline MNOs to seven tariff plans each for data services, which will be bundled in about 100 to include SMS, data and promos, for better understanding of the users and easy monitoring by the NCC.