Followed NCC increment approval, MTN data plan prices surge by 50% in Nigeria.
MTN data plans increase by 50% in Nigeria
The largest telecommunication service provider in Nigeria, MTN, has implemented a price increase to its data services in the country. The company announced this on its X page, citing that the price has be adjusted to better enhances its services and serve customers better. The data price increment came in after the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) approved a tariff increase for telecommunications companies in Nigeria. The telecom companies seek permission from the NCC to increase price 100% so that they can earn more revenue in order to cover rising costs. However, NCC only approved 50% increase for the telecommunication companies. In alliance with the approval, we’ve discovered that MTN has increased its data plan prices by 200%. Before, you could get 15GB for N2,000, but now it costs N6,000. The biggest plan, 1.5TB, used to be N150,000, but now it’s N240,000. Other plans have also changed: the 100GB plan now gives only 90GB and costs N25,000 instead of N20,000. The 600GB plan h…
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