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The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr
Isa Ali Pantami on Tuesday insisted the Nigerian Communications
Commission (NCC) must work out modalities to reduce the price of data in
the interest of Nigerians.
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TheNation reports that Pantami
said his office has been inundated with complaints from concerned
Nigerians about the high cost of data by telecoms.
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Minister mandated the management of the NCC led by its Board Chairman,
Senator Olabiyi Durojaiye, during a courtesy visit to work out the
modalities with other stakeholders in the industry in the next five
working dates.
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The Minister said: ” I am urging the
management of NCC to work towards reducing the price of data in Nigeria.
It is too costly and people are complaining every day.
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If you go to other countries, even countries that are not as largely populated as Nigeria, data prices are not this high.
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I
am also a victim of some of the infractions that are so common in the
industry. You load your data, but you barely used 20 percent of it and
the entire data is wiped off.”