NCC Denies Spectrum Racketeering

THE Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has denied media report of alleged frequency spectrum racketeering by the current leadership of the telecoms industry regulatory agency.Head, Media and Public Relations, NCC, Reuben Muoka, who spoke on behalf of the commission, denied that the current leadership of the regulatory agency has allegedly sold frequency slot belonging to the Nigeria Police to a private firm, Open Skys.Mouka explained that the said frequency allocation preceded the present administration of Dr. Eugene Juwah, who took the mantle of leadership at the commission in July 2010.According to a statement by the agency's spokesman, there is also no truth to the allegation that NCC issued a frequency spectrum to Smile Communications.'The current Executive Vice-Chairman of the commission, Dr. Eugene Juwah, did not initiate the allocation of the aforesaid frequencies, having resumed in July 2010, while the process began since 2009.Even after resumption at the NCC, Dr. Juwah has strictly followed the due process of issuance of licenses and frequencies.'The Nigerian Communication Commission has been inundated by calls from concerned citizens over a story in the Leadership Newspaper of Thursday, October 4, 2012 which alleged frequency racketeering, with an insinuation that the management of the commission has sold a frequency slot belonging to the Nigerian police to a private firm, Open Skys. That the story in its entirety lacks basic understanding of frequency allocation and its processes involved, resulting in unsubstantiated information capable of misleading the public and industry stakeholders.'Mouka explained that the frequencies allocated to Open Skys and Smile Communications are in two separate frequency different bands while due process were followed in the allocation which started in 2009 for similar frequencies at the Commission.According to the spokesman, 'the Frequency spectrum allocated to the Police by the Commission is intact and has not in any way be affected by the allocation.
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