Few months after Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) slammed a N1.04 trillion fine on Mobile Telecommunications Company of Nigeria (MTN) for failing to deactivate some 5.1 million subscribers, the firm has landed into yet another $4.2 billion trouble over its licence bid in Iran.

This time a telecommunications firm, Turkcell, had sued the company over a disputed Iranian mobile phone licence.

Turkcell first sued MTN in a U.S. court in 2012, alleging the company used bribery and wrongful influence to win a lucrative Iranian licence that was originally awarded to it.

But it had to drop the suit in 2013 after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a separate case made it clear that U.S. courts would not have jurisdiction in a claim involving two foreign firms in an overseas dispute.

However, in 2016, Turkcell filed another case in South Africa, where the case has been stuck in procedural wrangling since.

But MTN had claimed in a defence that Turkcell’s claim is opportunistic, an abuse of the process of court, baseless and without merit.

Recall that MTN obtained the licence in Iran in 2005 and maintains that Turkcell missed out because it did not comply with an Iranian rule that caps the shareholding in the licence at 49 per cent.

Iran is MTN’s third largest market out of the 22 countries the company operates in.

MTN previously appointed a retired British judge to lead an external investigation into Turkcell’s allegations. That probe dismissed the accusations as “a fabric of lies, distortions and inventions. Turkcell was not immediately available to comment.

In Nigeria, the failure of MTN which controls 43 per cent of the country’s telecommunications market, to fully deactivate subscribers with unregistered and incomplete Subscriber Identification Modules (SIM) cards details within the stipulated time earned the South African firm a fine of N1.04 trillion.

NCC officials feel belittled and disrespected after MTN sent low ranking officials to a meeting which was attended by high ranking NCC officials, members of the SSS and officials from the office of the National Security Adviser.

As if that wasn’t enough NCC said their enforcement and monitoring officials were denied access at the MTN office to their switches for inspection.

The N1.04 trillion fine is said to be as regards the timing of the disconnection of 5.1 million MTN Nigeria subscribers who were disconnected in August and September 2015 and is based on a fine of N200, 000 for each unregistered subscriber.


However, the matter was later resolved with the telecommunications firm agreeing to stagger the payment. ENDS

http://www.akelicious.com/2017/11/mtn-in-another-42-bn-mess.html

Double wahala for dead body.

message from mtn official::___-------


'' be expecting 1.3gb for #2500, be in effect from 7th nov,due to usual CHANGE effects, thank for usual cooperation.''

Fvck Mtn.

Wicked network

Mtn again

Wahala

Abeg collect them those money..
Dem terminate their project fame and their who wants to be a millionaire... Come increase the price of their card.... Those thieves need to pay for stealing us blind

Na true sef, how far with that 50 billion naira whey mtn suppose pay us?
Abi buhari don collect cut and free d rest for them?

Mtn is in 22 countries not 100 not even 50 and there slogan says Everywhere you go

They must pay this time or gtfo of our country

1gb for N600

Free calls

Free text

I still give it to MTN

MTN should kuku go away

marryjesus:

Turkcell first sued MTN in a U.S. court in 2012, alleging the company used bribery and wrongful influence to win a lucrative Iranian licence that was originally awarded to it.

But had to drop the suit in 2013 after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a separate case made it clear that U.S. courts would not have jurisdiction in a claim involving two foreign firms in an overseas dispute.

However in 2016, Turkcell filed another case in South Africa, where the case has been stuck in procedural wrangling since.

The difference between US court and African Court.
MTN probably bribed everyone in that SA court.

budosky:
Good one!

The funniest thing is, MTN will rather sponsor Music and musicians that add no value to human and community development than to spend millions on education which is the base of all forms of human development. Imagine, given out 250k scholarships while promoting useless musicians with hundreds of millions.

Don't quote me if you have a dead brain!

What would you say about Glo? They are the worst in this regard. I think MTN deserve what they got.

budosky:
Good one!

I always say it, MTN is a scam. They are after our money while providing unaffordable services at extremely outrageous prices. The funniest thing is, MTN will rather sponsor Music and musicians that add no value to human and community development than to spend millions on education which is the base of all forms of human development. Imagine, given out 250k scholarships while promoting useless musicians with hundreds of millions.

Don't quote me if you have a dead brain!

The last part of your post got me laughing hard


BTW

Why do you think MTN will give scholarships above sponsoring musicians....


They know that if they give you scholarships to the best schools in the world, the creative Nigerian spirit can come back in the future to be their strong competitor.

#JustEliminatingtheCompetition

So, if and when they give scholarships, it will still be the "kobo kobo " scholarship

i bought mtn card of #50 yesterday so that i can use it to do night browsing, before loading the card at all, i have called the customer care to help me deactivate any active subscription. i was told that there is no active subscription. to confirm it, i dialed *447# which confirmed it to me that i don't have any. i recharged my line successfully. at about 11pm when i woke up to ease myself before browsing, i decided to check my phone, what i saw was "your subscription to mtn caller tune was successful and #50 has been deducted". very painful. the most excruciating part of it was i didn't subscribe to anything, i had earlier confirmed that ever before i recharge at all.

MTN network sucks

They will pay... for nigeria they don’t have to bother these dullards can be bribed

budosky:
Good one!

I always say it, MTN is a scam. [b]They are after our money while providing unaffordable services at extremely outrageous prices. The funniest thing is, MTN will rather sponsor Music and musicians that add no value to human and community development than to spend millions on education which is the base of all forms of human development. Imagine, given out 250k scholarships while promoting useless musicians with hundreds of millions.

Don't quote me if you have a dead brain!

Entitlement and victim mentality.
Companies are not founded to look after your personal
interest, they exist to make profit!.

budosky:
Good one!

I always say it, MTN is a scam. They are after our money while providing unaffordable services at extremely outrageous prices. The funniest thing is, MTN will rather sponsor Music and musicians that add no value to human and community development than to spend millions on education which is the base of all forms of human development. Imagine, given out 250k scholarships while promoting useless musicians with hundreds of millions.

Don't quote me if you have a dead brain!

Mtn has being investing in education through scholarship and the building of health centres in some localities in Nigeria. They have really tried in respect to their social responsibility whereas the government has failed woefully

budosky:
Good one!

I always say it, MTN is a scam. They are after our money while providing unaffordable services at extremely outrageous prices. The funniest thing is, MTN will rather sponsor Music and musicians that add no value to human and community development than to spend millions on education which is the base of all forms of human development. Imagine, given out 250k scholarships while promoting useless musicians with hundreds of millions.

Don't quote me if you have a dead brain!

at least they are giving out something, what about Glo and other networks what are they doing ? who promotes musicians more between mtn and glo? say something else abeg