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USSD: Telecom Services Providers Owed N17bn By Banks, Says Danbatta

DigitalTimesNGBy DigitalTimesNG7 August 2020No Comments3 Mins Read
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Commercial banks in Nigeria are owing telecommunications companies over N17 billion following the Nigerian Communications Commission’s suspension of its Determination on Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) Pricing last year.

This disclosure was made by the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta at a virtual forum organised by the Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) held on Thursday.

In furtherance of its mandate to protect the interests of consumers and support a robust telecommunications sector, the NCC recently announced that it had revised the Determination on the USSD.

But speaking at the ATCON’s virtual forum on “Meeting the Interests of Government, Consumers and Telecoms Companies in the Era of Covid-19 and Post Covid-19 Pandemic for Digital Economy Development”, Danbatta stated that the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Ali Isa Ibrahim Pantami had already been briefed on the development with a view to ensuring a quick settlement of the debt.

While explaining the Commission’s efforts at resolving consumer-related issues, Danbatta noted that when the Commission introduced the Do-Not-Disturb (DND) code in 2015, less than 500,000 people activated the code, but there are now 22,722,366 lines on the DND.

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“Ninety-eight per cent (98%) of the total service-related complaints received from telecoms consumers within a 15-month period, spanning January 2019 to April 2020, have been successfully resolved by the Commission,” Danbatta disclosed.

Speaking further on quality of service, the EVC said “the Commission has monthly engagements with operators as well as quarterly industry working group on Quality of Service and Short Codes, and is currently monitoring 2G Key Performance Indicators, while the KPIs for 4G are being prepared.”

Recall that the NCC, in a statement released to the media recently, observed that the amendment to its USSD Determination was necessitated by a protracted dispute between Mobile Network Operators and Financial Institutions on the applicable charges for USSD services and the method of billing.

“As a responsive and effective regulatory authority, the Commission recognises that its policies are not static and may be modified from time to time as circumstances demand,” the NCC had said in the statement.

Danbatta noted that in the interest of the consumers and other stakeholders, the Commission revised the Determination previously issued by removing the Price Floor and the Cap to allow Mobile Network Operators and the banks negotiate rates that will be mutually beneficial to all parties concerned.

The NCC further determined that Mobile Network Operators must not charge the consumers directly for the use of USSD channels for financial services in the form of end-user-billing, but revert to corporate billing.

In addition, it determined that the transaction should be between the MNOs and the entity to which the service is provided (i.e. Banks and Financial Institutions).

 

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