The Managing Director (MD), Spectranet Ltd., Mr David Venn, on Wednesday said Nigerians would no longer pay for calls and Short Message Services (SMS), on mobile networks before the end of 2019.
This prediction by Venn was made at an interactive session with newsmen in Lagos, Nigeria.
With a teeming population of approximately 200 million, he noted the massive migration of Nigerians from voice calls and SMS to social media applications, such as Skype, Imo, Whatsapp, BlackBerry Messenger, Facebook Messenger, with telecommunications companies allowing subscribers to use their data service to make calls and SMS.
Venn said subscribers spend a lot of money buying credit to make voice calls, send SMS and also subscribe to data services at the same time on a particular network. When all can be incorporated into one, the use of Data.
He explained that even though subscribers still patronized voice and SMS services from the mobile operators, data service was cost- effective, faster to send SMS and make voice calls since most of these apps have incorporated calls into their services..
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This automatically would force mobile operators to expand their data network to accommodate the growing number of subscribers that use their networks to surf the internet.
On Spectranet, He said the company’s major plans for 2016 would be to build more base stations across its existing coverage to improve broadband connectivity in undeserved areas before the end of the year.
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