On Monday, 20th February 2017, telecommunication companies (telcos) announced that they may have no choice than to ban the use of mobile applications such as Skype and Whatsapp that allow unlimited voice and video calls between their users. These applications are said to provide Over the Top (OTT) services but telcos are considering disabling Nigerians from accessing these applications.

However, telcos have given three basic reasons for this action, one of which is the loss of revenue. According to telcos, several billions of Naira accruable to them through voice and video calls over the mobile networks is being lost to these applications annually.

“It is an aggressive approach to stop further revenue loss to OTT players on international calls, having already lost about N100tn between 2012 and 2017,” a manager at one of the major telcos in the country said.

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