Nine million subscribers activate DND to stop unsolicited text messages

NCC Boss, Umar Garba Danbatta

About 9 million subscribers inside the nation have activated the Do-Not-Disturb (DND) facility to stop unsolicited textual content material messages to their telephones.The Govt Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Price (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, has disclosed.He said his strategic imaginative and prescient for the enterprise, which he captured in his Eight-point Agenda two years previously, has made vital affect inside the sector.He urged worldwide policymakers inside the telecommunication enterprise to promote innovation and funding inside the sector.

The NCC, in an announcement yesterday said Danbatta made the disclosure on the just-concluded 2018 World Cell Congress in Barcelona, Spain.Dambatta said: “The DND facility could also be quite simple to utilize by clients. As soon as extra, close to that amount have gained entry to the payment’s 622 toll-free strains.“It is provided to clients to lodge their complaints on the usual of service provided by the telecommunication firms.”He added that there is the need for renewed contemplating in rising protection and regulatory framework inside the enterprise.

The NCC boss said the regulator ought to advertise innovation, funding and better top quality of service, along with put mechanisms in place to limit unfair pricing and exploitation of shoppers.

The NCC said it is working to restore the rising drop inside the top quality of suppliers (QoS) inside the sector. He disclosed that Nigeria presently has 145 million energetic subscribers, which portions to 103 per cent tele-density.

Danbatta said the payment, as part of its agenda, would work to ensure that the issue of poor top quality of service was tackled adequately.“We attempt to digitally rework and the tactic is on-going. Now we've been paying attention to the 5 interdependent elements of the digital transformation processes,” he said.

He cited them as insurance coverage insurance policies and institutions, human capital, utilized ICT enterprise, communications infrastructure features and institutional change.He extra disclosed that broadband penetration inside the nation, which stood at about Eight per cent when he was appointed, has elevated to 22 per cent.

This, he, said was according to the provisions of the ITU-UNESCO Broadband Price for Sustainable Enchancment. The NCC boss disclosed the worthwhile auctioning of the spectrum, 2.6 GHZ bands, which has been contributing to broadband penetration inside the nation.