Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has ordered MTN Nigeria Communications to stop implementing its new tariff plan called MTN TruTalk+ or face serious sanctions.
The commission barred MTN from advertising the tariff plan in print, electronic media or its website.
In a letter dated May 19, 2015 with ref No NCC/MTN/18/15 and signed by the Head, Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement, Mr. Efosa Idehen and Head, Legal and Regulatory Services, Mrs. Yetunde Akinloye, the Commission said the records showed that the operator has no approval of the regulatory authority before embarking on the new promotional tariff plan.
In a statement, NCC said “Consequent upon the above, the Commission thereby directs MTN Nigeria Communications Ltd to immediately discontinue this Tariff Plan and all associated advertisements regarding same or otherwise face regulatory sanctions accordingly.
“The NCC had initiated this action in fulfilment of its mandate under section 89 of NCC Act 2003 having carried out a compliance check on the recently introduced MTN Nigeria Limited TruTalk+ Tariff Plan.
“Following the compliance check, it was confirmed that MTN Nigeria is currently advertising a Tariff Plan called MTN TruTalk+ in the print and electronic media. The NCC investigations showed that MTN Nigeria has already configured this tariff plan on its network and has therefore implemented same.”
The new tariff has a daily access fee of N5, allows subscribers to call all networks at 11k/sec and N20k/sec to UK, USA, India, Canada and China.