Nigeria shifts USSD billing costs from banks to subscribers
A years-long billing dispute between Nigerian banks and telcos over N250 billion in unpaid USSD charges has now reshaped how millions of subscribers access mobile banking.
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Operators, spectrum, tariffs and infrastructure.
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- The tariff increase arrived. Subscriber behaviour changed less than operators expected
Data usage per subscriber fell in the first month and recovered by the third, suggesting demand is less elastic than modelled.
1 min read - Tower companies are the quiet beneficiaries of the operators’ capex squeeze
As operators defer their own builds, colocation revenue has become the more reliable line in the value chain.
1 min read - Fibre route kilometres by state: the map is emptier than the policy suggests
Six states account for a majority of terrestrial fibre. Eleven have effectively none.
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