MTN Nigeria on Tuesday confirmed that it had received permission of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to either raise or reduce its tariff plans.

MTN Nigeria on Tuesday confirmed that it had received
permission of the Nigerian Communications
Commission (NCC) to either raise or reduce its tariff
plans.

MTN group said
NCC lifted suspension on regulatory services, which
was imposed in October 2015.
"We refer to our SENS announcement dated 3 March
2016 where we noted that regulatory services to MTN
Nigeria had been suspended by the Nigeria
Communciations Commission (NCC) in October 2015,"
MTN said.
"Shareholders are advised that the NCC has lifted the
suspension on regulatory services to MTN Nigeria
effective immediately.
"This restoration of regulatory services will enable
MTN Nigeria to pursue the necessary approvals, in
accordance with the NCC regulatory process, for new
tariff plans and promotions, as well as other regulatory
matters."
NCC also confirmed the development, saying the
sanctions were for "24 identified infractions, which are
not in any way connected with the SIM Card non-
deactivation fine".
"These were a number of violations discovered by the
compliance monitoring and enforcement team of the
commission in June 2015," Tony Ojobo, NCC
spokeman, said on Tuesday.
"Consequent of the inability of MTN to make good
those violations, the relevant sanctions for these
sanctions were invoked.
"Consequent upon the remediation of the 24 infractions
by MTN, the Commission's letter of 14/3/16 informed
the Company of its decision to lift the Regulatory
sanction."
MTN, the largest telecommunications company in
Nigeria, had initially introduced a new tariff plan in May
2015, leading to sanctions from NCC.
NCC, in a letter dated May 19, 2015, claimed that MTN
had no approval of the regulatory authority before
embarking on the new tariff plan, which charged a
daily access fee of N5, while allowing subscribers to
call all networks at 11k/sec and N20k/sec to UK, USA,
India, Canada and China.
NCC said MTN contravened Section 108 (1) of the
Nigeria Communications Act 2003, and directed the
telco to "immediately discontinue this Tariff Plan and
all associated advertisements".
By October 2015, the NCC, in its quarterly compliance
enforcement report, said: "Out of the six sanctions
imposed on operators for various acts on non-
compliance, MTN was involved and sanctioned for four
separate infractions."
Infractions relating to sim registration were also
recorded in the report, leading to the suspension of
regulatory services to MTN Nigerian and an imposition
of a N1.04 trillion naira fine.

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