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NCC in Katsina
ICT

‘NCC should deploy requisite technology to cage call masking than decrying losses’

Telecoms industry pundits have advised the regulator, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), to liaise with reputable telecoms security firm either in Nigeria or aboard to come up with applications or innovative technologies that will stamp out incidences of call masking in…

NCC Atcon visit
ICT

‘NCC seems helpless in ending call masking, simboxing amongst networks’

A number of telecoms stakeholders’ are beginning nurse the feeling that the regulator, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) may be lacking the leadership will and discipline to end prevalence of call masking and simboxing fraud currently hobbling the industry. Call masking/refiling…

NCC Atcon visit
ICT

Experts decry NCC’s back and forth approach in ending ‘call masking’

Telecoms industry experts have raised concerns over what they described as a clear case of indecision by the regulator, the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC), in handling the monster of call masking and associated sharp practices by some operators. Many of…

NCC Dare
ICT

NCC Commissioner, Sunday Dare gives insights on efforts at ending call masking

If you receive a lot of foreign calls, chances are that quite a few of them have reached your handset bearing a local GSM or fixed line number. In industry parlance, what you got is called a “masked call”. What…

ATCON TERF
ICT

C’House operators’ link call masking to MNO’s reluctance to embrace them

The leadership of the Association of Interconnect Exchange Operators of Nigeria (AIEON) has raised the key issue causing the observed cases of international call masking in Nigeria. In an official position of the body on the recent move by the…