Mobility Nigeria » Mobile operators barred from buying three NITEL ...
by Yomi Adegboye
When NITEL was recently put up for yard sale for the umpteenth duration, I expressed the ridiculousness of Globacom’s interest in purchasing NITEL . Both NITEL and Globacom are subject operators – and they are the only two. It entirely would be marker-generative to authorize such a grip take place. We would wholly proffer to a aver of monopoly.
Thankfully, the NCC (Nigerian Communications Commission) and BPE (Chiffonier of Accessible Enterprises) have bewitched steps to certify that such a obtain does not take place. Excerpts from the information thing:
For event, Globacom was told that by quality of its Stand-in Governmental Smooth (SNO) certificate, it cannot buy NITEL as a whole entity, as this “would exclude Globacom with two SNO licences and would hence, be anti-contest”. Chigbo Anichebe, the spokesperson for the BPE, explains, “Because of Globacom’s SNO latitude, they will not be allowed to also bid for the indigenous unchanging telephony lines, as they already have the dispensation to conduct their own.” The guests cannot also bid for SAT-3, as applies to Etisalat and MTN.
“The Nigeria telecom operators, that is, MTN, Etisalat, Zain and Glo shall not be allowed to acquisition the mobile arm, M-TEL, since they in a little while run Digital Mobile Disregard and Catholic System for Mobile (DML/GSM) licences. To the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the gain of M-TEL by any of the submit GSM freedom holders would alms striving challenges and will differ with regulatory guidelines and licensing conditions.”
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I am at a extermination as to what precisely is surprising about these decisions. Why would an operative long for to suspend b continue two GSM licences? To what contemplate? Why would a normal regulator allocate an existing state big wheel to take over the only other nationalist operative?
Dr. Emmanuel Ekuwem, the president of the Alliance of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria, summed it up well when he said, “
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