Nigeria’s largest telecoms company MTN may have landed itself in yet another trouble waters with the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) but this time, it is over its violation of the commission’s guideline on mobile number portability.
The commission in its 2015 Q3 Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Report said there are increasing cases of port request rejections, it specifically identified MTN, Globacom and Etisalat as networks that are responsible for most rejections forcing it to resolve to monitor operators and take appropriate actions.
“Consequent upon the above, series of compliance checks were carried out regarding timer violations by donor operators with respect to `validation and deactivation responses’, which have timelines of two hours and an hour respectively,’’ the commission said.
The commission also said that a timer deactivation violation was noticed from MTN, regarding a Corporate Port request of over 109 lines belonging to Nigerian Breweries Plc.
According to NCC, the company initiated a corporate port out request from MTN to Glo via lead MSISDN: 07036735494 on Aug. 11, 2015 at 1.20p.m., but was partially completed as at 11.22a.m. on Aug. 14, 2015.
“As a result, these subscribers were not able to receive calls from MTN subscribers.
“In the same vein, a timer validation violation by MTN regarding four individual Port requests from MSISDNs: 08139382308, 08143810152, 08135485305 and 08162108093.
“MTN breached the timer of two hours for validation of four port requests from the NPC as stated in the MNP Business Rules,’’ it added.
The commission did not announce any sanctions for these violations
