August 2 ATCIS Birthday Subscribers Congrat Sina Bilesanmi, NCC Said On National Calls & SMS Subscribers Spent N1.77trn In 2020.
The Association of Telephone, Cable Television and Internet Subscribers of Nigeria (ATCIS) foremost No 1 leading telecom, masses advocacy body that promotes Subscribers interests as well as defending Subscribers right in Nigeria with membership strength of over 190million Subscribers across the six geo-political zones in Nigeria. The activities marking the sixth anniversary of active celebration of the Association of Telephone, Cable TV and internet Subscribers of Nigeria (ATCIS) began July 27th and it is expected to end today August 2nd, 2021
ATCIS Award Planning Committee across States gives awards to any individuals or Corporate Subscribers who have touched or add value to people or our country’s Telecommunication sector to be honors
Day One: July 27 witness visitation to motherless and less privileged take place in Benue State It continue on day Two July 28 with football match awareness about ATCIS in Kebbi state, Day three July 29 A joint Seminar with NCC, ICAF, ATCIS, ALTON, ATCON & Others, Theme: “Deployment of New Technology for Improved Consumer Experience; 5G Misconceptions and Conspiracy Theories”
Day Four: July 30 ATCIS- Juma’at Service in Borno state,
Day Six: July 31Grand finale with football match that held in Enugu State
Day Seven: August 1st ATCIS-Interdenominational Thanksgiving Service in Bayelsa State House and
Day Eight: August 2 Grand finale with the cutting of Anniversary cake and National President of the Association Birthday Celebration. The National President, Hon Prince Adesna Jelili Bilesanmi aka Ojueko thanks the Planning Committee, ATCIS-NIGERIA Team, all the State Government’s offical, Royal Father’s & Mothers, MNO & all Private Company who partners with ATCIS for the Successful Year 2021 Founder with Birthday & all the Glory be to GOD Almighty.
But Award presentation to stakeholders will be hold very soon in Lagos State due to third face of Covid19.
At this event NCC thank the efforts of ATCIS National President Hon Prince Sina Bilesanmi and his team for the great advocacy they did to all Telecom Subscribers, NCC made it known that
Nigerian Telephone Subscribers spent about N1.77tn on national calls and short messages in 2020.
This is according to the analysis of data released by the Nigerian Communications Commission recently released in document titled ‘2020 subscriber/network data report’.
NCC put total outgoing local and national traffic at 150,825,830,687.40 minutes.
The average tariff charged by the mobile networks as sighted on the NCC website on Sunday stood at N11.5.
This puts the total cost of outgoing calls on the mobile networks during the period at N1.73tn.
According to the NCC, the total number of national SMS sent was 8,223,933,975.02. The NCC note that ATCIS effort had pegged the cost of SMS from N20 to N4. Therefore, cost of sent SMS within the period totaled N32.89bn.
According to the commission, the total outgoing local and national traffic was 150,825,830,687.40 minutes while total incoming local and national traffic was 151,871,687,402.67 minutes.
MTN Nigeria had the highest total outgoing and incoming of 103,531,547,686 and 105,473,566,557 minutes respectively.
Airtel had total outgoing and incoming traffic of 41,888,554,009.00 and 41,869,399,065.00 minutes respectively.
Globacom had total outgoing and incoming traffic of 758,717,879.40 and 128,255.78 minutes respectively
while 9mobile had total outgoing and incoming traffic of 3,522,412,570.00 and 4,415,048,371.89 minutes respectively.
SMILE had total outgoing and incoming traffic of 328,751,159.00 and 48,532,478.00 minutes respectively.
NTEL had total outgoing and incoming traffic of 795,847,384.00 and 65,012,675.00 minutes respectively.
The commission said that total outgoing mobile international traffic for the year was 453,202,089.27 minutes while total incoming international traffic to mobile was 717,166,679.72 minutes.
MTN led the way with total outgoing traffic of 270,177,167 and incoming traffic of 264,977,868.6 minutes.
The NCC added that the total number of national SMS both sent and received in 2020 was 17,364,524,490.02, a 43.6 per cent decrease from 2019.
MTN recorded the highest count of SMS received, 6,290,889,268, and the highest number of SMS sent, 6,100,543,865.
Total number of international SMS sent for 2020 was 57,566,961 while the total number of SMS received was 229,173,132.
According to the NCC, the total number of international SMS sent increased by 2.4 per cent from 2019.
The association has made over 720 newspaper publications, both local and international as well as online news publications, Radio, and National Television Station Interviews with about
220 Success achievements so far to the benefit of Subscribers across the country.
ATCIS has spent about 410 million Naira since 2014 to date, which has been on self -sponsored by members without government agency in Nigeria.
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Mr. Oluwaseyi Aboderin
Chairman, Award Planning Committee
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