MTN Nigeria, Glo and Airtel have raised their end user tariff in line with the 50 per cent tariff adjustment granted to the mobile network operators (MNOs) by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).
MTN raised the price of voice calls on its pulse bundle to N13.80 per minute or 23 kobo per second from N7.80 per minute or 13 kobo per second, representing a 76.92 per cent increase.
Recall the call tariff rate was N11 per minute before the price adjustment was approved by the NCC while short message service (SMS) was N4 per text message.
Chairman, Association of Telecom Companies of Nigeria (ALTON), Gbenga Adebayo, said the MNOs cannot charge the same rate across the network, saying the MNOs will operate within the highest and lowest band allowed by the NCC.
According to random calls on the network yesterday, a 62 seconds call from Airtel to Airtel attracted N15.50 or an average of N15 per minute, a 36 percentage increment.
