The Nigerian Communications
Commission (NCC) has stopped Globacom Nigeria’s plans to offer free data to all
its subscribers on Friday, August 11, 2017.
This was contained in a letter
signed by Sunday Dare, NCC Commissioner for Stakeholder Management, for Umar
Danbatta, the Executive Vice Chairman, on Tuesday.
The commission explained that the
promotion was not in line with what was approved by the regulator.
Glo had annouced that eligible
subscribers, will enjoy as much as 200 megabytes of data for free, in what it
called the “free data day”.
“Please refer to the commission’s
letter dated 14th March, 2017 conveying approval for your Glo overload
promotion. It has however come to our notice that Globacom Nigeria Ltd has been
implementing the above regulatory approval in breach especially given your
recent media campaign on the ‘Glo free data offer’, a clear departurre from
terms and condition of the approval given for the Glo overload promotion
“Consequent upon the above, you
are hereby directed to suspend implementation of the Glo overload promotion
from your network with immediate effect,” the letter read.
NCC also summoned the chief
executive officer (CEO) of Globacom Nigeria, Gladys Talabi, to a meeting at the
commission’s headquarters in Abuja for August 17, 2017.
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