NCc fined MTN Nigeria and Globacom Ltd

The Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) has
fined MTN Nigeria and Globacom Ltd N34 million for
breach of the Mobile Number Portability business rules
and regulations.
The regulatory body made this known in its “2015 Q4
Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Reports’’
obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria yesterday in
Lagos.
NCC said Globacom was fined N22 million, while MTN
was fined N12 million.
In the “2015 Q3 Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement
Reports’’, NCC resolved to monitor and sanction
violations of MNP process time obligations and pledged
“to address increasing cases of port request rejections’’.
The commission said a series of compliance checks
were carried out regarding timer violations by donor
operators with respect to “validation and deactivation
responses’’, which had timelines of two hours and one
hour. According to the Q3 report, there is a timer deactivation
violation by MTN, regarding a Corporate Port request of
over 109 lines belonging to Nigerian Breweries Plc.
“The company initiated a corporate port out request from
MTN to Glo via lead Mobile Station International
Subscriber Directory Number (MSISDN): 07036735494
on August 11, 2015 at 1.20 p.m. but was partially
completed as at 11.22 am. on August 14, 2015.”