The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Pantami on Tuesday tasked the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to work out modalities to reduce the price of data in the interest of Nigerians.
According to TheNation, Pantami said his office has been inundated with complaints from concerned Nigerians about the high cost of data by telecoms.
The Minister mandated the management of the NCC led by its Board Chairman, Senator Olabiyi Durojaiye, during a courtesy visit to work out the modalities with other stakeholders in the industry in the next five working dates.
The Minister said:
” I am urging the management of NCC to work towards reducing the price of data in Nigeria. It is too costly and people are complaining every day.
If you go to other countries, even countries that are not as largely populated as Nigeria, data prices are not this high.
I am also a victim of some of the infractions that are so common in the industry. You load your data, but you barely used 20 percent of it and the entire data is wiped off.”
Plz great concern should be shown in dis aspect.. Am saying it, cos it really affecting me… D cost of data is very poor and we are in the digital age now… Plz sir help us out
…..Aluta continua..
This is a welcome development. Thank you sir