{"id":11531,"date":"2012-05-04T08:03:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T06:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=11531"},"modified":"2012-05-07T11:53:13","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T09:53:13","slug":"mtn-threatened-with-sanctions-by-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/11531\/mtn-threatened-with-sanctions-by-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN threatened with sanctions by Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s telecommmunications authorities Thursday (3 May 2012) threatened to impose sanctions on an affiliate of South Africa&#8217;s giant mobile phone service provider <a title=\"MTN\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1640-MTN-Group\">MTN<\/a> over alleged poor service to subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) issued the warning to MTN Nigeria Communication in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribers in Lagos, Nigeria&#8217;s economic capital, and its environs have in recent days experienced difficulties using their phones on the MTN network.<\/p>\n<p>But the NCC said that MTN had neither informed its subscribers nor communicated the development to the state-run regulator, as required.<\/p>\n<p>NCC ordered the telecoms firm to provide it with a report on the situation within 24 hours, including details of what was being done &#8220;to urgently address the problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Failing to respond might result in sanctions the agency added, without elaborating.<\/p>\n<p>Officials of MTN were unavailable for comment.<\/p>\n<p>MTN Nigeria has the largest subscriber base in what is Africa&#8217;s most populous nation, with more than 90 million customers there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s telecommmunications authorities Thursday threatened to impose sanctions on an affiliate of South Africa&#8217;s giant mobile phone service provider MTN over alleged poor service to subscribers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[25,28,1123,1505],"class_list":["post-11531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-active","tag-mtn","tag-nigeria","tag-sanctions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11531"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11703,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11531\/revisions\/11703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}