Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL), Starcomms and 12 other telecoms companies have been declared “inactive operators” by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).
The declaration means the affected companies will no longer contribute to the NCC’s periodic subscriber information.
Other affected companies are Disc Communications, Intercellular Nigeria Limited, Reliance Telecoms (also known as Zoom), MTS 1st Communications, WITEL, O’net (Odua Telecom), Rainbownet Limited, Monarch Communications, XS Broadband, Webcom and IPNX.
According to the NCC, the CDMA mobile sector contributed 2,256,612 while fixed wireless operators added only 172,876 of the active lines recorded in April 2014.
Image courtesy of Shutterstock
