NCC set to move consumers away from using multiple SIM cards

The Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) has said efforts are being made to ensure total Quality of Experience (QoE) that will ensure telecom consumers move away from using multiple SIM cards.

TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Dr Aminu Maida said this during a special engagement with the media in Lagos on Thursday to discuss his vision and strategy after spending 100 days in office.

Maida stressed NCC will foster growth in the telecoms industry by focusing on collaboration, compliance, data and quality of experience.

He said it was very vital to collaborate with stakeholders, who ranged from government agencies to the media, telecoms operators and consumers.

The NCC boss said that the commission would be focusing on three major stakeholders – the telecoms consumers, the industry itself and the government.

Maida noted that the commission would be focusing on the needs of each of these stakeholders, adding that it knew consumers, for example, are looking for total Quality of Experience (QoE).

The NCC boss said the commission would  be driving QoE, right from the point of how consumers find and select telecoms services.

“We will be leveraging on data to be able to empower consumers to make the right choice, so that we can move away from the world where we have multiple SIM devices.

“Rather than multiple devices and SIM cards, we are looking at a situation, where consumers will only have one SIM card and one device.

“We are also going to be working with our licensees on data tariff, speed and coverage. We are going to be working with our licensees to see how tariff can be simpler and more transparent,” Maida said.

He added that the commission would also continue to enlighten consumers to understand the habits that drive greater data usage.

Maida explained that as consumers buy phones with stronger data tolerance which produce better quality pictures, they fail to realise that these habits consume data faster.