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Nigeria has
the highest number of mobile subscribers in Africa (AFP)
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Nigeria's Communications
Commission, the country's telecommunications regulator, has issued mobile phone
firm MTN Nigeria, with a US$5bn (£3.5bn) fine for failing to disconnect
subscribers with unregistered Sim cards bought before January 2012. From that date anyone
buying a Sim card in Nigeria has had to register it under their name by law.
Phone
companies were told to register their existing customers' Sim cards, which MTN
Nigeria - the biggest telecommunications firm in Nigeria - has failed to do.
BBC report continues:
The
fine is the largest in the history of telecom infringements in Nigeria and may
redefine the relationships between telecommunications operators and the
regulator.
Nigerians
continue to complain about poor services from mobile network operators and
blame the regulators for not doing enough to solve the problem.
A
senior executive at MTN Nigeria says the company will issue a
statement on the fine later today.
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