At a media briefing in Abuja, the NCC’s Director of Public Affairs, Tony Ojobo, explained that the Commission’s guidelines on adverts and promos require telecoms operators to notify the Commission seven days prior to such advertisement, Daily Independent reports.
Ojobo pointed out that the network providers involved in the advertisement of APC’s political campaigns failed to comply with the provisions of Section 3 of the Guidelines on Adverts and Promos.
Section 3 of the NCC’s Guidelines, provides as follows: “The Commission shall receive written notification from the licensees for all advertisements for goods and services within a minimum of seven days of the proposed or planned publication of an advertisement, in order to ensure such advertisements meet the following minimum standards and requirements.”
He maintained that network operators are obliged to notify the Commission based on the above provisions, which they did not do, as a result, this was a breach of the Guidelines.
He explained that considering the millions of active subscribers on the networks, who may not be interested in political matters, the unsolicited text messages violate their privacy.
His words: “There are currently 135 million active subscribers as of December 31, 2014. Not all of them are interested in political matters.
What he is saying is very true. D way som pipo evn lay hand on ur no. And start sending u txt about their products is so annoying. Hmmm! "Uwaifo don talk e own o".
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ReplyDeleteCorrect n wise step...hope it will prevent or stop all this rubbish msg I keep getting from MTN....but they know this laws n guidelines so y still breach them when u know its against country constitution.....let's hear from d network providers involve....
ReplyDeleteExactly!!...me sef don tire 4 the messages!!
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