The Senate Wednesday ordered the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, to immediately stop the implementation of its directive for mobile data tariff to be increased.?
The Red Chamber maintained that all stakeholders must be consulted before such hike could take effect.
It would be recalled that the NCC had announced its directive for telecoms operators to increase the cost of data tariff plan from tomorrow, December 1 which was promptly followed by a similar text message from the various network providers to their customers informing them of their plan to increase tariff for browsing in line with the NCC directive.
