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...For a better society... Monday, December 06 2004 Vol 13 No.44 News Editorial Opinion Labour Politics Sports Features Columnists Business Money/Market Energy Alaba Market View From America Locally made recharge cards: GSM operators not ready for Dec. 31 deadline Remmy Nweke THE December 31 deadline given by the Federal Government for the commencement of recharge card production locally by the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) operators, may be shifted as the operators are not ready to meet the deadline. This indication was somewhat confirmed weekend by the Minister of Communications, Chief Cornelius Adebayo, during a facility tour of MTN installations at Ojota-Lagos. According to the minister, "the state-of-readiness of some approved companies for the production of recharge cards locally have just been concluded and the report is yet to be formally presented to President Olusegun Obasanjo." Source at the ministry also informed that given the bureaucratic nature of government the submission of the report may not hold until later this month, adding that government may not take any action until next monty (January 2005). Chief Adebayo, however, expressed happiness over the expansion plan of MTN. "I am very much impressed with what I saw and I believe that they are helping the growth of the industry," he told newsmen after he was briefly conducted round the MTN switch centre at Ojota. The minister, who was accompanied by the permanent secretary in the ministry, and two of his special assistants, said he would like the expansion of the network to continue with quality of service improved. He also expressed satisfaction that during his tenure the GSM tariff have been reduced drastically by all the operators. On the Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL), management contractors, Pentascope International, the minister expressed concern over the abysmal performance recorded so far and said that no Nigerian would be satisfied with such performance. He, however, noted that though the contract still has about one and a half years to expire, his ministry may consider a review rather than terminating the contract, which initially was for three years beginning from April last year. Management of MTN led by its chairman, Dr. Pascal Dozie, and the Managing Director, Mr. Sofiso Dabengwa, were also at the event which later ended with about an hour closed door meeting between the Communications Ministry officials and MTN management team, including Chief Marketing Officer, Mr. Afam Edozie. � 2004 @ Champion Newspapers Limited (All Right Reserved). Powered By dnetsystems.net dnet�

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