FG reduces Data Price by 50 percent
The Federal government has announced it has reduced the price of data by 50 percent.
This was confirmed in a statement by Mr Femi Adeluyi, the technical assistant of the Minister of Communication and digital economy, Dr Isa Pantami in Abuja on Thursday, directing the Nigerian Communications commission (NCC) to put in place measures to that effect.
Following the new directive, the price of data of 1GB has been reduced from 1000 naira to 487 naira beginning from last November.
See the statement below;
“The Honourable Minister had inaugurated a Committee that developed the Nigerian National Broadband Plan (2020-2025) on the 16th of December, 2019. The Plan was unveiled and launched by His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, on the 19th of March, 2020.
“One of the goals of the Plan is to reduce the average cost of 1GB of data to a maximum of N390 by 2025. With the January 2020 baseline of N1,000 per GB, the maximum projected steady decrease for the end of each year was as follows: 2020 (N925), 2021 (N850), 2022 (N775), 2023 (N700), 2024 (N545) and 2025 (N390).
“In line with Dr Pantami’s commitment to under promise and over deliver, the measures have caused the current cost of data to reduce significantly beyond the December 2020 projection of N925./Based on the Report by NCC, the average cost of data as at November 2020 was N487.18, which amounts to 47.33% lower than the projected value.
“The Report also indicates that the cost of data in November 2020 was less than 50% of the cost of data in January 2020. The Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, through the NCC, will continue to ensure that consumers enjoy a price regime that supports fairness and is friendly to consumers.
“Policies are in place to ensure that operators adopt competitive pricing that eschews unjustifiable margins. The general public may also wish to note that complaints about rapid data depletion are also being investigated. For more enquiries, the Honourable Minister has directed NCC to respond to all issues raised by our citizens and customers.
“All hands will remain on deck to achieve the goals of the Broadband Plan as the Ministry supervises its implementation in line with our National Digital Economy Policy for a Digital Nigeria.”
That is good news….
The way and manner someone’s data finishes within a short period of time is annoying
Data in Nigeria is too costly and one raises nothing meaningful from it
I hope they reduce it more sef and seriously implement it
This is very nice ankles for celebration thanks to pmb
Though, it’s a good step taking but government still have a lot to do to better the life of her citizens, there are still some people who doesn’t know how to operate the bigger phone not to talk of browsing on it, they can’t benefit from this.
Why can’t you also reduce the pump price by 50%? Because human being will Tell you that he or she doesn’t benefit from it. Kindly look into that also.
Kindly help us to inform the president to help us tackle the insecurities because when we are alive is when we will be browsing and be using phone.
You shouldn’t allow us to die of hunger, the inflation in the land is beyond reducing the price of data. The price of the food need to be addressed.
There are more important things to reduce price and not data please
Confused set of government