NCC to suspend licences of six companies over ‘call masking’ [DETAILS]
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says it will suspend the licenses of six companies which it claims are involved in “call masking”. According to a letter seen by TheCable and dated January 12, 2018, NCC said the affected companies had until January 31 to state why they should not be suspended. Call masking is a technique used to hide numbers when making calls or sending messages. In some cases, international numbers are masked with local numbers which are not charged, because the caller’s identity is completely hidden on the network. In July, TheCable had reported that NCC gave telecommunications companies one week to end call masking. “The commission has recently been inundated with complaints regarding the prevalence of call masking and refilling in the industry,” the letter addressed to the chief executive officer of Medallion Communications Limited read. “Considering the economic and security implications of this development, the commission had vide its lett...