NCC will apply sanction against any provider if porting is denied

Director, Public Affairs, Nigeria Communications Commission NCC, Tony Ojobo, said that the commission would apply sanction if any anti-competitive behaviour was established against any service operators on porting issues.

Ojobo said on Thursday in Abuja that porting to any network could not be denied by service providers for whatever reason.

He said that the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) regulations clearly spelt out the responsibilities of the telecomm operators, the MNP clearing house and the commission.

Ojobo said that the provisions in the regulation of MNP indicated that porting request to any network could not be denied except if a subscriber was owing or had issues of false identity.

He explained that false registration was when a person who made a request for porting was not the person that was captured in the data base during the SIM registration.

Ojobo added that a SIM that was not registered could be denied porting to any network.

He said that if the above issues were not the case, then porting to any network was meant to be completed within 24 hours according to the MNP regulations.

He advised that if porting was not completed within the time frame given in the regulation, the person making the request should report to the recipient operator.