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NCC: Another Round of Test And Dwindling Service Quality

By on December 6, 2011

GSM subscribers have continued to suffer the perennial problem of poor quality service.  It might seem a gang up as the big three makes life difficult for subscribers who toil daily to meet high subscription fees and in turn are serve the dish of poor quality services. But NCC intervened.

It is at edge of this flood of complaints coming from subscribers that NCC directed telcos to meet up with network efficiency or risk being banned from adding new subscribers to their network. But the stipulated deadline has gone and NCC is gearing up to conduct another round of tests to determine the level of compliance by the operators.

These operators have all not met the set deadline and would have to take the punitive measures to be melted on them. These operators have adduced their reason for not ratifying the problem to the issue of shutting down their base stations so they can upgrade their facilities. It has led to deteriorating service quality.

Over the months, Keen observers and consumers have complained painfully about deteriorating service quality to no avail, each time we see a reoccurrence. Like that, the long awaited improvement keeps escaping us like a mirage. It is either consumers are taken for a ride or consumers have to begin to boycott the operator and their dismay service. The excuses have continued with operators not ready to minimize such network fallout.

While NCC goes on another test round on their network, it wouldn’t take long that we would be seeing a consumer boycott. The time seems overdue for this.