NCC gives operators permission to raise tariffs

The Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC) has directed mobile operators to initiate a new data tariff regime from December 1, 2016 in what is effectively a price increase. Ultimately this would lead to Nigerians who use the internet to pay more for the use of data since the operators would not hesitate to pass the costs to the consumers. The leadership at the NCC wants Nigerians to believe that data in Nigeria is the cheapest in the world. This hardly true since in some parts of the world subscription is much cheaper than what obtains in Nigeria.
There appears to be a desperate scramble to raise taxes by various commissions that are controlled by the Federal Government. The tragedy about it all is that these costs are already being passed as some of the operators have already announced that they would be reviewing data costs at the beginning of December. 
Critics of the NCC have already hammered at them for not being able to caution the operators about shoddy services, but they are giving them the go ahead to raise prices. 

Professor Garba Danbatta Vice Chairman NCC