Nigeria is changing for the better, all though very slowly. Are you guys too young to remember NITEL, do you remember queiing in Ikeja or Falamo to make a phone call?, do you remember waiting in a neighbour's house to receive a call from a loved one? Now the private sector is providing what successive government failed to provide. The government's role (NCC) is to create guidlelines to help market competition. Lower interconnectivity is just one method.

I know anything can happen in Nigeria, but let's have some faith, my first sim card cost me N18,000 !!! how much is a sim card now.

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@Omafones
Nice point!

@dragnet, the same glo that flopped with their BIIG Dash stuff? well, may GOD help us hia.

This is very good news! Just when we thought that the free calls, Etisalat's minutes back promo et.al. were just what we wanted.

Even South Africa that had mobiles before us are paying almost twice the amount we pay. Imagine, intl. calls to Naija is like N200/min

I must add though that it seems as if we trad quality for tariff rate in Naija cuz in my year in SA I can count the number of times a call didn't go through. But here,  

Good to know, I hope it works out well

Merry xmas to you all . am happy about this new development but can somebody tell me what this network will charge for payphone line . will this drop in tarrif affect call center ? anybody will anwer should plz tell me .

@emilola, call centres are private businesses, they can charge what they like. If they have sense they charge what their customers can afford to pay. If their own costs is reduced and they have long term business sense they will lower their costs.
But many Nigerian businesses only look at very short term profit.
but it's not government that should determine what businesses charge but ultimately the market decides this.

that's my economic lesson for today.

this ain't the first time we have been told something like this.power ,good road,one child one laptop project and a whole lot of them.like a guy said earlier,seeing is believing.

lynxnoon:

as for me am sticking to dis popular saying: seeing is believing

GBAM!!
Our problem is always implementation. . . Until then, seeing is believing

1. Interconnect rates going down nxt year
2. Glo set 2 relaunch a berra package to replace 'BIIIG' promo nxt year
3. Glo set 2 launch maine one trans atlantic fibre cable nxt year. Improved cheaper internet nxt year
"l have a feeling, dat nxt year's gonna be a gud year, Dat nxt year's gonna b a gud year, "
~Sings and walks away happily~

Stories, lets see the actions not just mouthing. AcTiOn! AcTiOn!! not words.

Another good news from naija

I dont believe yet oh!, Until it is initiated,

Well quite impressive , The problem with our regulatory body most of the time is, implementation.this if can be done,can change the face of communication in Nigeria, lets be hopeful this time,

Naija sef! Even when it becomes certain that the tariff has been reduced, some people will still say"lets wait and see how long it will last"

.if dz is AcTualLy implemented, it'll be great.

We should be calling @ the rate of 5 per minute already.

well, lets watch and see, i beleive competition would could also contribute to the decrease

Why is it all the major changes only affect call rates only, No major policy towards Internet usage, we need announcement that will bring radical change to internet services.

supereagle:

Why is it all the major changes only affect call rates only, No major policy towards Internet usage, we need announcement that will bring radical change to internet services.

the impact on call rates is more, more ppl use the voice over the data, that should be tackled first

;d ;d

A_K_O:


I must add though that it seems as if we trad quality for tariff rate in Naija cuz in my year in SA I can count the number of times a call didn't go through. But here,  

That's naija for you. We all know how bad the services of these telecommunication companies are
and instead of addressing that, we want low tariff,

Let's pray it will be implemented.

Much as I applaud the NCC for this decision, there are still some questions begging for answers

Why are calls from abroad to Nigeria GSM cheaper than local calls?

It's obvious the operators sell their networks cheaper to foreign carriers than to Nigerians in Nigeria!

This has to be addressed.

The telephone companies give higher priority to calls coming from abroad because they get the money offshore.

if it works,how will they determine the cost incurred in running generators?

I'll hope for the best.

I pray they change the price on time as expected.

I hope they will pay arrears

~Bluetooth:

I hope they will pay arrears

july123:

Let wait and see.

Boss Ttdiamonds:

I dont believe yet oh!, Until it is initiated,

emisun:

this ain't the first time we have been told something like this.power ,good road,one child one laptop project and a whole lot of them.like a guy said earlier,seeing is believing.

I so love my country people!