hensben:
A lot has really happened in this country.

PDP members ah- e nor go better for una

markidoo:
I hate does messages and they come especially when am expecting a credit alert. Airtel's messages are better bt Mtn no dey add value to person mobile activities at all.

PeteVlogger:
Chai see open scam. Mehn na to start my own telephone company

Sijo01:


So na PDP members be NCC smh

Blackberrybabes:

Ripples Nigeria findings have uncovered that GSM service providers in the country defraud Nigerians to a whooping tune of about N547bn every year.
Nigeria has 149,787,120 active Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) lines as at November 2015 according to figures from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).


At N50 deductible on SMS every five days of subscription, invariably, Nigerians lose over N7.5 billion every five days, and N547b yearly through such unsolicited SMS.
This is not counting other unsolicited SMS that attracts N100 per week, and unsolicited calls that also attract separate charges.
In a move to address the situation, the House of Representatives during the weekend suggested a fine of N5million for GSM providers involved in unsolicited calls and text messages.
According to the lawmakers, unsolicited text messages are a breach to the privacy of phone users and a contravention of their fundamental rights as provided for in the Constitution.
Sponsor of the bill, Hon. Ali Madaki, said the Bill became imperative, as there was no law in the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Act specifically on text messages, which makes it possible for telecommunications service providers to fleece their subscribers through such unsolicited SMS.

According to him, the consumers are at the mercy of the service providers, who have taken full advantage of the absence of such laws to continue defrauding Nigerians.
Equally in the bill, online telemarketing is prohibited without prior consent or application by a subscriber.
However, Nicholas Ossai (PDP, Delta) among others, said unsolicited text messages does not need to stand alone as laws, as the NCC Act has enough laws to address the issue.
Expectedly, Speaker Yakubu Dogara and the House Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila noted that privacy of subscribers should be an issue which the NCC Act was silent on.

The bill was unanimously passed after it was put to a voice vote by the Speaker, who said opinion of experts and stakeholders would be required at the public hearing stage to seek the opinion of Nigerians about unsolicited text messages.
While the debates continue, service providers continue to have a field day, smiling to the bank with the billions fleeced from Nigerian GSM providers.

http://www.blackberrybabes.com/2016/03/unwanted-callssms-mtn-glo-airtel-others.html

hensben:
To me they are the cause of everything wrong with Nigeria.

richidinho:
This is what i experience everyday, dont know how to stop it

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Sijo01:


Blame NCC and stop pursuing shadow.

wolesmile:
Another method is through flash message. Most people will click OK without knowing, and before u know it, you have subscribed to one yeye package...



And that's #50 off your account every week.

hensben:
Come, nor insult me this morning. I nor be ya mate.

Sijo01:


Lmao @insult. Where you see the insult na Abeg take a cup of chilled water or hot coffee depending on the weather condition in your crib.

Blackberrybabes:

Ripples Nigeria findings have uncovered that GSM service providers in the country defraud Nigerians to a whooping tune of about N547bn every year.
Nigeria has 149,787,120 active Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) lines as at November 2015 according to figures from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).


At N50 deductible on SMS every five days of subscription, invariably, Nigerians lose over N7.5 billion every five days, and N547b yearly through such unsolicited SMS.
This is not counting other unsolicited SMS that attracts N100 per week, and unsolicited calls that also attract separate charges.
In a move to address the situation, the House of Representatives during the weekend suggested a fine of N5million for GSM providers involved in unsolicited calls and text messages.


http://www.blackberrybabes.com/2016/03/unwanted-callssms-mtn-glo-airtel-others.html

UnknownT:
The one that made me give up on MTN was when a certain number (+55515) called me, I picked the call and it was about Catholic Cathecism. After the voice prompt had finished blabbing and asked me to press 1 to subscribe, I dropped the call. Then an sms entered my phone that #50 had been deducted from my account for subscribing to Catholic Cathecism, I was shocked. Called them and they told me that they can't do anything that its a 3rd party bla bla bla and there was nothing they could do. I just jejely blacklisted the number. Since the time this thing happened till now, that number still calls me