FG Reduces Cost Of Data By 50% – Isa Pantami

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The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami has made it known to the public that cost of data reduced by 50 per cent in 2020.

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The minister made this known in a statement titled “Current Cost Of Data Reduced To Less Than 50% Of January 2020 Cost” signed by the minister’s Assitant on Information Technology, Femi Adeluyi.

“The average cost of 1GB of data has reduced from the January 2020 cost of N1,000 to N487.18 in November, 2020.”

Prior to this time, on 16th December, 2019, the government had inaugurated a committee that developed the Nigerian National Broadband Plan (2020-2025). The plan, which was launched by the President Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), in March 2020, aimed to reduce the average cost of 1GB data to a maximum of N390 by 2025.

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“Policies are in place to ensure that operators adopt competitive pricing that eschews unjustifiable margins. The general public may also wish to note that complaints about rapid data depletion are also being investigated,” the statement added.

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