Phone traders urge FG, NCC to suspend registration fees for 90 days

The Association of Mobile Phones and Allied Products Traders of Nigeria (AMPATN) has called connected the Federal Government and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to suspend the implementation of telephone registration charges for 90 days, informing that the argumentation could endanger millions of livelihoods crossed the country.

The relation said it supported efforts to registry mobile phones, destruct counterfeit devices and forestall the usage of stolen phones for transgression activities, but expressed interest implicit the fees reportedly imposed connected imported devices.

Speaking astatine a property league successful Kano, AMPATN National President Sani Tasi’u Ibrahim, represented by the Kano State Chairman, Jamilu Bala Gama, said the relation was acrophobic astir the economical implications of the argumentation for traders, technicians and mean telephone users.

According to Ibrahim, traders are being asked to wage astir N670 for each tiny telephone and astir N4,000 for larger devices. He questioned the ineligible ground of the charges, the individuality of the institution receiving the payments and the transparency of the interest structure.

AMPATN argued that the further costs could summation mobile telephone prices, peculiarly those of affordable and refurbished devices relied upon by low-income earners, students and tiny concern owners.

The relation noted that Nigeria's mobile telephone commercialized supports a wide web of businesses, including retail...