Banks increase SMS alert charges, blame telcos 50% tariff hike

By Favour Unukaso DEPOSIT Money Banks (DMBs) will from today, May 1, begin to charge N6 instead of N4 for SMS transaction done on customers’ account. Leading the charge, yesterday in a notice to its teeming customers, Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) attributed the adjustment to a recent upward review in telecommunication rates by service... Read More

Telecoms operators register 301m SIMs as subscribers exchange 25.9b SMS

By Favour Unukaso  THE Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said that in line with the Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) card registration exercise mandated by it, mobile operators as of December 2022 had registered 301,283,030 subscribers in the country.      Specifically, NCC said MTN had registered 123.5 million; Globacom, 65.4 million; Airtel, 64.8 million; 9mobile, 46.1... Read More

Juniper Research warns of OTT threats as messages rise

JUNIPER Research predicted a growing danger of Over The Top (OTT) business messaging cannibalising operator SMS and RCS revenue as the number of messages sent on the third-party services soars. The research company forecast the number of messages sent would grow from 93 billion this year to 254 billion by 2027, fuelled by increased... Read More