Nigerians should expect a new data price as soon as an on-going cost-based research is concluded- NCC

   

    The Nigeria Communications Commission, NCC, has said Nigerians should expect a new data price as soon as an on-going cost-based research is concluded.



   This was disclosed in Abuja by the Executive Vice Chairman of the NCC, Umar Garba Dambatta during a chat with newsmen.

   According to him, the commission had noticed that the level of data usage was growing across the country and there was need for an affordable and acceptable price floor for data.

   He said this was necessary in order to forestall a price war in the data sub-segment of the telecommunications industry.

   Dambatta disclosed that the commission was looking at other temporary measures in other to ensure that data services improved.