There
are indications that the four mobile operators that were fined N1.17 billion by
the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, over poor quality of service may
have agreed to pay the fine next week.
It was gathered that the development came after a
crucial meeting between the regulator and the operators, Wednesday.
Confirming the story, Director, Public Affairs of the commission,
Mr Tony Ojobo, said that the operators had promised to pay by next week with a
submission of how they would progressively improve the quality of their network
over the next nine months.
According to Ojobo, it was also agreed that
the improvement and advancement to the networkswere going to be monitored by
the NCC.
He added that the quality was expected to
increase progressively over the period while NCC engineers and that of the
operators would jointly fine tune QoS Key Performance Indicators.
However, Ojobo did not say whether the
operators agreed to pay the whole of the fine and the additional daily
penalties accrued since after the May 21st deadline. Attempt to get the mobile
operators to confirm the story however proved abortive.