Globacom Limited, one of Nigeria’s mobile network operators (MNOs) has denied reports making round in the public space that it owes MTN Nigeria interconnect charges.
A news report from the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday indicated that a reliable source in telecoms company disclosed that the amount due for payment was N1.6 billion and it had been paid without controversy.
According to the news medium, the official maintained that the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the industry regulator, should have carried out cross-checking of facts before issuing a public notice that Globacom owes MTN.
The official claimed: “We are not owing MTN any interconnect charges.”
The Globacom official further stated that Glo was the first telecoms company that introduced the pay-per-second form of billing which cut the monopoly of the other foreign companies operating in Nigeria.
It would be recalled that the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) had on Monday in a public notice granted a partial disconnection of Globacom from MTN due to non-settlement of interconnect charges.
In the notice, the industry regulator gave Globacom 10-day ultimatum, effective from the date of the public notice, to pay the debt or suffer disconnection.
According to the NCC, the partial disconnection means that Globacom’s subscribers will not be able to make calls to any MTN number but the customers can receive inbound calls from MTN customers.
