The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has warned that the vandalisation of infrastructure belonging to telecommunications will affect Point of Sale (PoS) transactions and other banking activities.
According to the NCC’s Executive Vice Chairman, Umar Dambatta, network providers have reported that their infrastructure was being vandalised, and this could have multiple ripple effects on Nigerians.
Some of the impacts of the nefarious behaviour includes; Disruption of the network services, disconnection of digital platforms, congestion of alternative backup routes/networks, interruption of social and economy activities, loss of revenue, ripple effect on other networks and network elements, delay in network recovery.
Nigerians are urged to desist from such practices as The forthcoming elections, national activities and programmes are all dependent on the national telecom infrastructure.
