NCC to sanction MTN, Airtel, Globacom over auto data service migration
Category: Nigerian National News
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) yesterday said it would
sanction MTN, Airtel and Globacom for defying its directive on
automatic migration to Pay-As-You-Go data bundle.
The Commission made this known in its ‘2015 third quarter Compliance
Monitoring and Enforcement Report’ obtained pasted on its website.
NCC said it had continued to receive complaints from subscribers on
automatic migration of data bundle package to Pay-As-You-Go Billing on
depletion of their data bundle.
‘’Consequently and pursuant to section 53(1) of the NCC Act, 2003.
The commission on 3rd August 2015 directed all mobile service operators
to comply with the data bundle directions.
According to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), NCC said “where a
subscriber’s data bundle account is fully depleted before the due date,
service providers should notify the subscriber via SMS, giving
information regarding the tariff/ billing rate for automatic migration.
‘’That all service providers should henceforth stop auto-migration of
subscriber’s data service to the Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) account upon
depletion of the data bundle account, except with the express consent
and authorisation of the subscriber via SMS.’’
NCC said that a follow-up compliance check was carried out which
revealed that Etisalat was in compliance with the directives, adding
that Etisalat through SMS, notified its subscribers of depletion of
their data bundle accounts, before due dates.
The telecoms regulator also said that Etisalat sought the consent of
subscribers before automatically migrating them to the Pay-As-You-Go
data service.
It pointed out that ‘’Globacom is in compliance with Direction No.
One as subscribers receive SMS detailing tariff rate for auto-migration
on depletion of their data bundle, stating however, that Globacom failed
to obtain express consent from subscribers before migration to PAYG and
therefore in violation of Direction No. Two.
NCC explained that ‘’MTN is in compliance with Direction No.One, but
failed to highlight the tariff rate for PAYG billing. In addition, data
service is not suspended on depletion of the data bundle account even
without an authorisation via an SMS from the subscriber.
It said ‘’Airtel is not in compliance with the above directions,
stating that consequent upon the above, “the Commission has issued a
notice of intention to sanction the concerned service providers.”
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