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Nigeria's leading mobile telecommunication operator has claimed it has expended over N10 billion in the mandatory Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards registration. This is as the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) also claims to have spent N6.1 billion on the project.
Speaking at a capacity training for journalists in Lagos on Tuesday, MTN Nigeria's Senior Manager, Regulatory Affairs, Quasim Odumbaku said credible subscriber data was critical to MTN's future and that is why it expended that much on the project.
MTN currently controls 43 percent market share and has 62.8 million subscribers in Nigeria.
The SIM registration exercise had been introduced by the NCC in 2010 across all mobile networks. The regulator body set a six months deadline which most of the operators could not meet up with. This compelled it to seek Federal Government Approval of N6.1 billion which the commission used to begin its own registration.
Subscribers are still been registered even as MTN warns its agents to desist from collecting money before registration or the pre-registration of SIM cards which some agents have started doing.
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Speaking at a capacity training for journalists in Lagos on Tuesday, MTN Nigeria's Senior Manager, Regulatory Affairs, Quasim Odumbaku said credible subscriber data was critical to MTN's future and that is why it expended that much on the project.
MTN currently controls 43 percent market share and has 62.8 million subscribers in Nigeria.
The SIM registration exercise had been introduced by the NCC in 2010 across all mobile networks. The regulator body set a six months deadline which most of the operators could not meet up with. This compelled it to seek Federal Government Approval of N6.1 billion which the commission used to begin its own registration.
Subscribers are still been registered even as MTN warns its agents to desist from collecting money before registration or the pre-registration of SIM cards which some agents have started doing.
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