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    Business MTN Makes 4 Agreements With NCC About its Operations in Nigeria

    Telecom giants, MTN Group, and the Nigerian government have arrived at an agreement after six months of negotiations. The Nigerian Communications COmmission, NCC, had fined MTN $5.2bn in 2015 for failing to disconnect unregistered numbers on its network. A lot has happened since then and on...
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    Business Nigeria: HoR Members Surprised by MTN's Decision to Pay NCC Fine

    The House of Representatives has expressed surprise at telecom firm, MTN's decision to pay the fine imposed on it by the Nigeria Communications Commission, NCC, for failing to disconnect unregistered lines. MTN had agreed to pay $1.67bn over three years to the government. The fine was slashed...
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    Business The Conditions Surrounding MTN's Decision to Pay NCC Fine Revealed

    The Nigerian government had to agreed to cut the fine imposed on MTN for failing to disconnect unregistered users, before the firm agreed to pay the fine imposed on it, a government official on Friday revealed. According to him, MTN threatened to pull out of Nigeria if government didn't cut the...
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    MTN Project Fame: Season 9 Is Here; Be A Superstar

    The MTN Project Fame audition dates have been announced. See below: AUDITION DATES AND VENUE GHANA ACCRA -- 18th June 2016 08:00 till 17:00 GHone TV Studios, South Industrial Area, Accra. NIGERIA IBADAN 18th June 2016 08:00 till 17:00 Tafo Arena, Poly Road, WAEC Office Junction, Eleyele...
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    Business MTN Introduces New Call Tariff Plan: Xtrapro & XtraSpecial

    After the discontinuation of MTN true Talk, the giant mobile telecommunication company has introduced two new tarrif plans. MTN Xtra Pro and MTN Xtra Special is the latest new tariff plan introduced by MTN to help its subscriber make calls at an affordable rate for the time being. About MTN...
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    Business MTN Shares Declines After FG Suspends Talks on $3.9bn Fine

    MTN Group Limited shares fell after Nigeria suspended talks about a $3.9 billion fine on the South African mobile-phone company. The stock declined as much as 2.9 percent, the most since May 12, and traded 1.5 percent lower at 126.50 rand monday in Johannesburg, valuing the company at 233...
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    Business MTN Launches New Small and Medium Enterprise Value Pack

    MTN Business has launched a new SME-tailored solution called MTN SME Value Pack. An MTN Execeutive, Amina Oyagbola said: “This new solution is an unbeatable choice for smart businesses. It is specially designed to make a huge difference in the way SMEs work. With this solution, growing...
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    Business NCC Issues New Strict Policy Over Unsolicited SMS, Calls

    Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is set to address complaints of subscribers who have been inundated with unsolicited telemarketing, short message service (SMS) and voice calls by mobile network operators with a warning that it shall fine any operator found culpable with a fine N5...
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    Business MTN Loses 6.5million Internet Subscribers in 2016 First Quarter

    The Nigerian Communications Commission report for the first quarter of 2016 indicated that MTN Nigeria lost 6.5million internet subscribers. In the report covering the first three months of the year just released by NCC, MTN which began the quarter with 39,924,737 data customers ended it with...
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    Business MTN Introduces Cheaper Data Bundles - See How To Subscribe

    MTN has revised its data subscription plans and here are the new time bomb offer. To subscribe, pick any of the following plan suitable for you... Plan Price Validity Codes 30MB 100 24HRS 104 *131*104# 100MB 200 24HRS 113 *131*113# 750MB 500 7 Days 103 *131*103# 1.5GB 1000 30 Days 106...
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    Business MTN Launches Customer Service Via Whatsapp Messenger

    In a way of satisfying customers, Mtn now extends their customer services to WhatsApp messenger. Now they have launched 5 dedicated Customer Care Whatsapp contact numbers for their subscribers to reach out and get their issues solved. Here are 5 Mtn Dedicated WhatsApp Number to add...
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    Business MTN’s Subscribers Base Fall Across 22 Countries in 3-Month

    MTN Group Limited subscribers base fell during the first quarter as disconnections ordered by the government in Nigeria, its biggest market, curbed the growth of Africa’s largest wireless operator. MTN’s customer base decreased by 1.4 percent to about 229 million across 22 countries in the...
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    Business Nigeria: Internet Users Reduce to 93.7 Million

    The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, on Saturday said that internet users on Nigeria’s telecommunications networks reduced to 93.75 million as at February 2016. The commission made this known in its monthly Internet Subscriber Data, made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos...
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    Business Nigerian Lawmakers Hike MTN Fine to $15.6 billion

    MTN Nigeria fined $5.2 billion in 2015 by Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) is facing a possible hike to $15.6 billion in a bizarre turn of events. Nigeria’s House of Representatives is about to hike the fine slapped on MTN Nigeria for failing to deactivate the SIM cards of some 5.1...
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    Business MTN Fine: Nigerian Senate Queries Malami For Opening A Special Account Despite TSA

    The Senate has accused the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, for having ulterior motive in the payment of N50 billion by MTN, as part of fine imposed on it by the Federal Government for failure to deactivate 5.2 million unregistered subscribers on its...
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    Business How MTN's Failure to Register SIMs Aided Boko Haram Activities – Buhari

    President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday while receiving the South Africa president, Jacob Zuma has said the failure of the MTN Nigeria Ltd to disconnect millions of unregistered subscribers had contributed to the killing of thousands of Nigerians by Boko Haram terrorists. He said it was for that...
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    Business SIM Card Revalidation: NCC Disconnects 1Million Lines

    Not less than one million unregistered mobile phone lines from the network of telecom operators has been eliminated in the ongoing re-validation of telecommunications subscriber base , according to the latest statistics for the month of December released by the Nigerian Communications Commission...
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    Business We Don't Want MTN to Die, We Want Them to Obey the Law- Nigeria Telecoms Minister

    Nigeria's Telecommunication Minister, Adebayo Shittu, has stated that MTN has to pay a substantial part of the $3.9bn fine imposed on it by the NCC before negotiation talks can resume. “When MTN came, we understood their pleas. However, we added that if you cannot meet up with the fine, you...
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    Business Etisalat Nigeria Sues MTN Over Visafone Acquisition

    Etisalat Nigeria has instituted a legal action against MTN Nigeria and Visafone Ltd. The telecoms firm is challenging MTN’s use of the 800MHZ spectrum following the acquisition of Visafone, Leadership reports. “The use of the 800MHz spectrum to deploy broadband services ahead of its...
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    Business Ondo State To Experience Total Loss Of Network Coverage Soon - MTN

    Millions of subscribers in Ondo State and its environs would likely experience negative impacts on the quality of MTN Nigeria services following the closure of its facilities by the state government. The telecoms operator said so in a statement issued by its corporate communications executive...
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