The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has urged telecom subscribers to play a major role to complement efforts being put in place to ensure effective protection of telecom infrastructure.
It gave the advice at a sensitisation event it organised at Wannune, Tarka Local Government Area of Benue State, saying this is important to sustain and improve on the quality-of-service delivery by the service providers.
According to the Commission, aside the role of the law enforcement agencies in protecting telecom infrastructure, the subscribers and ultimate users of telecom services, have an obligation to do everything to protect telecoms infrastructure in their environment. These include the base transceiver stations (BTS), the underground fibre optic cable, as well as associated infrastructure.
Addressing audience at the programme, the Director, Zonal Operations, NCC, Amina Shehu, decried the problem of vandalism caused to telecom infrastructure which often result in poor quality of service delivery to the end users.
”One of the major challenges to quality of service that operator provide to you, is vandalism of telecom infrastructure, such as Base Transceiver Stations (BTS). Others are theft, hostility from some host communities, which have continued to pose a major setback to the industry. Therefore, it is imperative for the public to regard telecom facilities as collectively-owned infrastructure that are crucial and essential for the provision of efficient and acceptable telecom services. The more reason these facilities need to be adequately protected,” she urged.
Source: https://thenationonlineng.net/ncc-urges-subscribers-on-infrastructure-protection/