FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PROBES TELE-COMMUNICATION COMPANY IN THE COUNTRY FOR DATA DEPLETION.

Tele-Communication Companies in Nigeria, including  MTN, AIRTEL and others are currently being probed by the Federal Government following consistent users complaints on data depletion.

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC said it had started probing data depletion in the telecoms Industry in line with its mandate  of consumer production.

The  Executive Vice  Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of  NCC, Professor  Garba Dambatta  said  reduction in the  cost of  data might not  provide the lasting  solution to the issue of data depletion, promising that the Commission will explore new measures that will address the issue.

He said the  Commission did its benchmarking recently and discovered  that the  cost of  one Gigabyte  of  data  had come down below five hundred  Naira which represented fifty percent  reduction from what it  used  to be.

Professor Dambatta said there was however, a target to reduce data cost to three hundred and ninety Naira per Gigabyte by the year 2025 adding that the Commission is almost there.