Traiffs

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is set to announce a new tariff regime for the telecommunications sector, which will result in higher costs for data, voice, and SMS services. This follows years of requests from telecom operators, who cited the rise in operating costs due to the forex crisis and inflation as reasons for the increase. Despite these pressures, the Minister of Communications, Dr. Bosun Tijani, has indicated that the government is willing to allow price hikes but dismissed a 100% increase requested by operators. A comparative analysis shows Nigeria has the lowest cost for 2GB of data in Africa,…