Nigerians Will No Longer Pay for Calls,SMS – Spectranet Boss

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.
Venn made this prediction at an interactive session with newsmen in
Lagos.
He noted that with the fast growing usage of social media
applications, such as Skype, Imo, Whatsapp, BlackBerry Messenger,
Facebook Messenger, telecommunications had allowed 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.
According to DailyPost, he explained that even though subscribers
still patronised voice and SMS services from the mobile operators,
data service was cost- effective, faster to send SMS and make voice
calls.
Venn noted that presently, data service providers had been improving
on the broadband network provided to customers due to increased
patronage in the data services.
He noted that with the fast growing usage of social media
applications, such as Skype, Imo, Whatsapp, BlackBerry Messenger,
Facebook Messenger, telecommunications had allowed subscribers to
use their data service to make calls and sms.