TThe Nigerian Communications Commisssion (NCC) may stop the three major mobile operators, MTN, Glo and Airtel, from further sales of SIM cards by end of November if they did not comply with the key performance indicators set by the NCC? to improve quality of service with immediate effect.
The three operators have been issued a 30-day deadline, effective from November 1, to reverse the trend.
This deadline follows a dismal performance by the three operators on quality of service from the result of an independent monitoring exercise carried out by the commission across the country which showed that all the three operators failed to meet with four key performance indicators that were crucial for quality of service improvements as set by the commission.
Consequently, the commission had notified the three operators of its intention to issue a directive that with effect from November 30, 2011, any of the operators that failed to meet the targets would? be barred from further sale of its SIM Cards or addition of any new subscriber to its network.
It added that any new SIM Card sold, or additional subscriber added to the network in contravention of the direction, would attract a penalty of N1,000,000? per subscriber added.
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