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The Chairman of the Association of Licenced Telecom Operators of Nigeria , Gbenga Adebayo, highlights a number of issues facing telecoms operators in the country. From cost of energy to vandalisation of infrastructure, Adebayo believes these challenges are enough reasons to justify mobile operators’ recent clamour for tariff increase.
Without going too academic about it, the numbers don’t lie so we need to be guided by what the figures say. We have a price window today of minimum of N6.40 per call. We can move within that price band based on previous regulator approval. We are only saying that regulators should unfreeze that point and allow us to move within the current price window while a cost study is being conducted.
services, there’s no recourse for the operator whatsoever and part of what we are saying is other than that the infrastructure is challenged because people are no longer investing due to the current realities. We are also saying that infrastructure that support communication services should be protected, classified as critical national security and economy infrastructure. I call it the first level of protection that you require for any security infrastructure.
In some cases, yes. In some parts of the country, yes. So, at the end of the day a little here, a little there doesn’t make much difference and the other problem is that some regulatory agencies of the petroleum sector, they are going after telecoms providers. So, they say to you there is something in the law that says if you have more than 500 litres of storage tank on your site you have to get the permit, you have to pay fee and all that, so it’s an all-round problem that we’re facing.
Communications has become one of the most critical services to us as a people; both for commerce, for security, for education, and all of that. This infrastructure has become so critical to our national economy, and what we advocating to the government is to classify telecommunications as critical national infrastructure and provide the same level of protection you provide for any security infrastructure.
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