The other two were Airtel and MTN but based on the bare facts that only MAFAB was coming in fresh, we dubbed the contest a David and Goliath fight, that is, if you have a little bible history of a rookie fighter, David, who triumphed over a boisterous Goliath of the Philistines. You don’t want to agree with me? When the regulator decided to launch the country into the new world of 5G, through the auctioning of 3.5GHz spectrum in 2021, MAFAB was one of the three bidders to dare the field which requires so much investment to operationalize. Twice in less than two years, the regulator has made statements in support of the operator even if the operator should actually be speaking for itself, just like the other operators. There are no indications that MAFAB Communications is having any such operational challenges or thrust in any situation that should compel the regulator of the telecommunications industry, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), to begin to make statements on behalf of the operator. For an operator worth its salt, whose activities still wear the badge of some human feelings, there is always every reason to worry about a licensee or even the health of the market generally. It’s either the operator is not performing well in the market place or there could be some backend happenings impairing its operations. There are several reasons for this to happen. IT is not impossible for a regulator to be worried about the health of one of its licensees. This is compromise without measure, it is favoritism beyond the call of regulatory relationships’ What is wrong is the regulator releasing press statements on behalf of a particular operator. It should be allowed to do so, for the simple reason that 5G deployment is cost intensive even for existing operators, not to talk of a new entrant who will build from the scratch. ‘There is nothing wrong if MAFAB is making grand preparation to launch its services.
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