Ruben Muoka, Head Media and Public Relations, Nigeria Communications Commission, has said that the commission is not worried about the short term tariff modulation among telecom providers, adding that competition among the operators will drive down their prices.
He spoke against the background of differences in tariff among telecom operators, saying that even though it regulates tariff in the industry, it was not much worried over tariff differences among the operators.
Mr. Muoka, made the position known in Obollo-Afor, Enugu State at the 35th edition of the commission’s Town Hall meeting.
He said: “As a regulator, we don’t interfere with day-to-day pricing. What we have done is to give a band within which the service providers will not charge beyond.
“What we entrenched in the system is competition. Competition is going to drive down prices and it has been so because if that service provider increases the price of his data services, there is option to go to another provider.
“We are about to give them instruction that on auto renewal, that even when your data expires, you will have 14 days to roll it over in consideration of the consumer.”
Frank Ugwuanyi, Chairman of Udenu local government council, while speaking to newsmen suggested that telecom operators should pay taxes to councils where their operational masks are mounted.
