The cost burden of the 50 per cent telecoms service tariff hike may have been complicated by data depletion, overstretching the cost of broadband services for 170 million consumers, including businesses.

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and its affiliates will begin a nationwide strike on March 1, 2025, if the telecom companies fail to revert to the old tariff.

The National Association of Telecommunications Subscribers (NATCOMS) on Monday said it would challenge the Federal Government’s decision to allow telecoms operators increase tariff by 50 per cent in a court of law. The President, NATCOMS, Mr Deolu Ogunbanjo, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos said that the Nigerian Communications…

With a new tariff regime for Nigeria’s telecoms sector now a done deal, what is in the hike for millions of subscribers who have continued to bear with poor services?

Unauthorised access to telecommunications and other critical national infrastructure sites in the country has been banned as the Federal Government has finally gazetted the ‘Designation and Protection of Critical National Information Infrastructure Order 2024’.

There are fresh concerns over security issues around call masking and Subscriber Identity Module (SIM)-boxing related fraud in Nigeria. Call masking or refilling is a practice in which international calls are terminated in Nigeria as local numbers

Going by current happenings in the economy, which has affected virtually all the sectors, from manufacturing to FMCG, among others, it is no longer a matter of ‘if’ but ‘when’ an upward review of the current prices for telecommunications services in the country would happen.