NCC Fines MTN, Glo N34m for Porting Violation

Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has fined MTN Nigeria and Globacom Limited a total of N34m for breach of the rules and regulations guiding the Mobile Number Portability scheme.

The regulatory body made this known in its 2015 Q4 Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Reports.

The NCC said that Globacom was fined N22m, while MTN would pay N12m for the infractions.

The commission said that it had resolved to monitor and sanction violations with the MNP process time obligations in order “to address the increasing cases of port request rejections.”

It stated that series of compliance checks were carried out regarding timer violations by donor operators with respect to validation and deactivation responses, which had timelines of two hours and one hour, respectively.

According to the report, there was a timer deactivation violation by MTN regarding a corporate port request of over 109 lines belonging to Nigerian Breweries Plc.

“MTN breached the allowable two hours for validation of four port requests from the NPC as stated in the MNP Business Rules,” it explained.

The report also indicated that there was a timer validation violation by Glo regarding 11 individual and one corporate port requests.

It stated that Glo had breached the two hours allowable for validation of six port requests from the NPC as stated in the MNP Business Rules.

Glo validated one of the port requests over nine hours after the receipt from the MNP administrator, according to the report by the regulatory agency.

The report also stated that Glo breached the allowable one hour for the donor to deactivate the 147 ported out lines belonging to Reckitt Limited in violation of the provisions of the MNP business rules.

It, however, said that all the timer violations were undergoing enforcement actions.

According to the commission, its activities are consistent with Section 89 of the Nigerian Communications Act 2003.