NCC To Start Regulating The Use Of BBM, Facebook, WhatsApp and Others In Nigeria

Media reports reveal that the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) announced on Tuesday that it will soon start regulating the activities of Over-The-Top (OTT) players in the Nigerian telecommunications market.

OTT players are platforms like Facebook, Skype, WhatsApp, Viber, Blackberry Messenger (BBM) and WeChat, and so on, that deliver audio, video, and other media over the Internet without a multiple-system operator in control of distribution of the content.
The NCC, in a 23-page document titled: ‘An Overview of Provision of Over-The-Top (OTT) Services’ stated that the growing influence of these social media platforms posed an obvious threat to the operation of traditional telephone networks. The NCC further explained that OTT platforms are services based on the Voice over IP communication protocol (VoIP), a technology that is rapidly gaining ground against traditional telephone network technologies, adding that with the increase in uptake of mobile VoIP services provided by apps such as Google, Facebook, Skype, Viber and WhatsApp, telecom operators “face the risk of eroding revenues and profitability.”
This comes just a few days after Spectranet CEO, David Venn, had stated that Nigerians would stop using traditional telecom services to make calls, instead opting to used data-based VoIP services to make calls and text, by 2019. It is unclear what this means exactly for the OTT platforms, in relation to telcos, but Pulse Tech will keep you updated as the situation unfolds.

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Posted: at 16-02-2016 10:20 AM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero

I see..issokay

Posted: at 16-02-2016 10:38 AM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

hehehe ... wahala deyoo.... we dey watch sha..
Que Sera Sera

Posted: at 16-02-2016 10:55 AM (8 years ago) | Upcoming

errrh abeg oooh make them no try am ooh
they shuld leave us here oooh...no no
e no go work....trust us in nigeria we must
bypass am....no problem other countries
don even pass this level.....NCC think twice ooh
make una no police us here....it wil nt work..
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Posted: at 16-02-2016 11:11 AM (8 years ago) | Hero

thank God Palmchat is not included

Posted: at 16-02-2016 11:17 AM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Who cares

Posted: at 16-02-2016 11:54 AM (8 years ago) | Newbie

Ok nah,trust nigerians anyhow he be them must operate am,look for way to hack in.

Posted: at 16-02-2016 12:07 PM (8 years ago) | Hero

only in da zoo and china.

Posted: at 16-02-2016 02:10 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

I think is high time we all come together and pray against the spirit of backwardness in this our country since Nigerian have made the mistake of going back to their vomite by voting in former military president everything have been going backwards just immergen if this people suceed in turning all social net work into nepa that switch off an on, that mean upeople will not be able to sign in on viber whatapp all the time as usual like every other develop country , is only God that will help us in this country

Posted: at 16-02-2016 04:25 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

pk oooh

Posted: at 25-03-2016 05:13 PM (8 years ago) | Hero