{"id":6502,"date":"2015-10-26T23:57:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T23:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=6502"},"modified":"2015-10-26T23:57:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T23:57:33","slug":"telecom-giant-mtn-nigeria-has-been-fined-a-record-5-2bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=6502","title":{"rendered":"Telecom giant MTN Nigeria has been fined a record $5.2bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telecom giant MTN Nigeria has been fined a record $5.2bn by Nigeria&#8217;s Communications Commission (NCC).<br \/>\nMTN was fined for non-compliance with a deadline set by the NCC to disconnect all non-registered sim cards.<br \/>\nThe move follows accusations by mobile phone users that the regulator had failed to bring operators to account for poor services to subscribers.<br \/>\nMTN Nigeria says it is studying the letter sent to it by the regulator and will respond soon.<br \/>\nMTN is one of the largest phone providers in Nigeria.<br \/>\nA senior official of the company told the BBC it was in talks with the regulator over the fine and hoped to resolve the matter.<br \/>\nBBC Abuja editor Bashir Sa&#8217;ad Abdullahi says some Nigerians say they want the regulator to address poor network signals provided by telecoms companies in the country.<br \/>\nThey want more sanctions on firms to encourage them to improve signals and the quality of service in the country, he says.<br \/>\nStatistics from the NCC indicates that Nigeria, a country with an estimated population of more than 170 million, has almost 150 million mobile phones<\/p>\n<p>BBC<a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Delta-newsroom-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6437\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Delta-newsroom-logo.png\" alt=\"Delta newsroom logo\" width=\"270\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telecom giant MTN Nigeria has been fined a record $5.2bn by Nigeria&#8217;s Communications Commission (NCC). MTN was fined for non-compliance with a deadline set by the NCC to disconnect all non-registered sim cards. The move follows accusations by mobile phone users that the regulator had failed to bring operators to account for poor services to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[496,956],"class_list":["post-6502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-mtn","tag-nigerias-communications-commission"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Delta-newsroom-logo.png","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-1GS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6503,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6502\/revisions\/6503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}