IT World • Created December 15, 2014 04:00

NCC clamps down on illegal telecoms operators

Three of the affected operators were axed for their failure to obtain the required license on the frequency band they operated on. The enforcement exercise which started on Tuesday in Lagos lasted till Friday when the NCC team led by the commissions Head of Enforcement ýUnit, Salisu Abdu went with Spectrum monitoring van (SMV) to […]

NCC clamps down on illegal telecoms operators
NCC clamps down on illegal telecoms operators

Three of the affected operators were axed for their failure to obtain the required license on the frequency band they operated on.
The enforcement exercise which started on Tuesday in Lagos lasted till Friday when the NCC team led by the commissions Head of Enforcement ýUnit, Salisu Abdu went with Spectrum monitoring van (SMV) to examine and confirm riding of the culpable service providers on the 5.4GHz frequency.
The alleged companies are Switch Talk Technologies, Multi Dimension Technologies Limited and Net com Africa and Steel Broadcasting Company while three yet to be identified provide network service to Dstv.
Speaking with journalists after the exercise on Thursday, Abdu said, ý”We had an enforcement here in Lagos to clean off the 5.4 frequency band. The 5.4GHz frequency band either to 2009 used to be a license free frequency, in 2009 NCC came up with guidelines for deployment of services in 5.4 and 5.4 to 5.7 is now a licensable band that no operator should operate on that particular frequency until he purchase the license of operation. In course we have monitored compliance with the guidelines actually and we discovered that many other operators are still operating on the 5.4GHz since 2012. We have to clean off the exercise and we thought the frequency is now free for any interference. Another monitoring exercise was carried out by the Director Spectrum Administrative Department of the commission and discovered that some operators about seven are operating in the 5.4GHz last year and that is why we are in Lagos.”
He explained that there is a different between the commercial use and private use of the spectrum in its guidelines issued by the commission in 2009.

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