regulator, has issued mobile phone firm MTN Nigeria, with a $5bn
(£3.5bn) fine for failing to disconnect subscribers with unregistered
Sim cards bought before January 2012.
From that date anyone buying a SIM card in Nigeria has had to register
it under their name by law.
Phone companies were told to register their existing customers' SIM
cards, which MTN Nigeria – the biggest telecommunications firm in
Nigeria – has failed to do.
The fine is the largest in the history of telecom infringements in
Nigeria and may redefine the relationships between telecommunications
operators and the regulator.
Nigerians continue to complain about poor services from mobile network
operators and blame the regulators for not doing enough to solve the
problem.
A senior executive at MTN Nigeria tells me that the company will issue
a statement on the fine later today.
--BBC
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