Mobile telephone
subscribers on
Thursday in Abuja
called for a uniform
tariff for Short
Message Service
(SMS) from all
telecom operators in
the country.
The subscribers made
the call in separate
interviews. Mr David
Amachree, who sells
cosmetics, said that it
was unfair for the
operators to be charging
differently for SMS from
one network to another.
Amachree urged the
telecom operators to
slash the rate of SMS to
other networks. "The
SMS that we send cost N5
for same network and
N15 for other networks.
It should go down. It
should be uniform for all
networks.
"They should cut it down
to a maximum of N3 or N5
per SMS, it should go
down. The population of
this country is so large
that every one Naira
cumulatively turn into
millions.
"So they are cheating us
honestly; the Nigerian
Communications
Commission (NCC ) should
sit up and be up to the
task in their
responsibility,'' Amachree
urged.
Mrs Victoria Onyebuchi, a
primary school teacher,
said that SMS should be
free to subscribers to
serve as value added
services for being on a
particular network.
Onyebuchi also urged
NCC to compel the telecom
operators to reduce and
charge uniform tariffs for
all networks in the
country. "Why is it that
whatever come to Nigeria
is always different; they
can't do this in other
developed countries.
Our leaders are not
helping us they should
try and do something to
compel these telecom
operators to come down.
"Let free SMS be a kind
of incentive for
subscribers whom the
operators make fortunes
out of,' ' Onyebuchi said.
Miss Halima Yakubu, a
student at the University
of Abuja, said that the
present charge on SMS
was hindering text
communication betwen
students using different
networks.
"For instance, a student
in an emergency situation
having just N5 credit in
his or her phone cannot
send an SMS to a friend
using a different
network; this is just
unfair.
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