Close to one million fake phones were imported into Nigeria with a total value of N2.7billion in 2013.
This was disclosed by the...
minister of communications technology, Omobola Johnson, at the Consumer Roundtable on Phone Rights to mark the 2014 World Consumer Rights Day organised by the Consumer Protection Council (CPC) yesterday in Abuja.
Johnson also revealed that the federal government was ready to engage with state governments that make their states conducive for ICT infrastructure to be rolled out by prioritising telecom investments in those states.
While informing that a pilot would be held in six states in the coming months, the minister stressed that the figure on the number of fake phones in Nigerian market may be higher this year and lamented that unless this trend was discouraged, it may have a pronounced effect on the country’s ability to attract investments into the telecoms sector while the phone user continues to be at the receiving end.
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