The Mobile Telecommunications Network, MTN Nigeria, lost a total of 3,667 subscribers to other networks through Mobile Number Portability (MNP) in Jan. 2014, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said.
This is contained in the “Port-Out Activities“ of Mobile Network Operators’ report, made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos yesterday by the NCC.
According to the report, MTN was the worst hit during the MNP’s exercise in January 2014, as customers leaving the network increased from 3,052 in December 2013 to 3,667 in January 2014.
Airtel Nigeria also lost 1,429 subscribers through the exercise in January, as against the 1,199 customers it lost in December 2013.
The report said that Globacom lost 978 subscribers in January 2014, after losing 973 of its customers to other networks in December 2013.
Etisalat Nigeria was the....
least hit by the MNP exercise as 806 customers left its network in January 2014, as against 626 that ported in December 2013.
A total of 6,880 telecoms users engaged in the porting-out exercise across the networks in the month of January, compared to the 5,850 customers involved in the activity in December 2013.
However, the report said Etisalat Nigeria enjoyed the exercise as it led the gainers’ list with an additional 3,007 customers that came on board its network in January.
Airtel came second on the gainers’ list, as it added 2,319 subscribers to its customer strength.
Also on the third position of the gainers’ list was Globacom with 1,031 moving into its network, while MTN received only 531 subscribers to its network.
NAN reports that a total of 6, 888 telecom service customers participated in the port-in activity in January, as against 6,962 participants in December 2013.
The exercise was flagged off on April 22, 2013 by the NCC, with the aim of deepening competition in the industry.
As the exercise progressed, reports had shown that MTN Nigeria had continued to be worse hit, hence indicating that the service provider needed to improve on its network. (NAN)
Also in a related news;
Telecommunications company, Etisalat Nigeria Friday sacked over two thousand permanent staffs across the country. The sacked workers were paid off our source say.
The Telecom operator seeks to hire adhoc staff to run the operations of the company as the company is said broke and can no longer retain the permanent work force.
Most of those sacked have expressed surprise and disappointment over the development which has thrown them into the already saturated unemployment market.
“We were asked to leave and our cheques handed to us yesterday, it is unfortunate that I am again back to the Job market” a source who does not want to be mentioned revealed.
“They want to recruit contract staff/new agents and they can no longer run the cost of paying those of us that are permanent staff, they claim.”
Another source went on to say the management of the company is insisting on hiring contract staff to replace those sacked but “it is unfortunate they had to send us home the way they did” . In Lagos alone, over 1,200 were sacked while more than 800 were asked to go home in states like kano.
The company has also terminated their graduate trainee program for all fresh graduates. The Company sent out emails that the program has ended without prior notice.
Some members of the graduate trainee had spent years with the company only to receive mails about their sack at the close of business.
Attempt to speak to the management of Etisalat to confirm or deny the allegations has been unsuccessful so far as at the time of filing this report, we’ve sent mails and no response.
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