Several telephone companies in Niger, indicted for offering services below expectation, have paid over 3.6 billion CFAF as fines to the country’s public treasury, the Chairman of the National multi-sectoral regulation council (CNR), Almoustapha Boubacar, told a news conference here Tuesday.
Boubacar said “After noticing some shortfalls, the CNR had to force them to pay the fines.”
The companies fined were Celtel-Niger (which paid 2,131,962,058 CFAF), Orange Niger (800,283,861 CFAF), Sonitel (392,727,645 CFAF), Atlantique Télécom (254,039,365 CFAF) and Sahel Com (74,076,928 FCFA).
According to Boubacar, the fines, however, represent 3% of the respective turnovers of each company indicted in accordance with the laws.