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The dilemma is understandable considering the combo of activities they generate in the telecommunications ecosystem. OTT service providers are mainly agents of social media. Social Media has indeed become the mainstream Platform to beat. While it disrupts the status quo, rail road revenue streams of the traditional licensed telecom operators, its activities are also people-based and self regulated. The platform is free for people to voice their opinions and transform society.
These arguments have characterised the OTT discussion for a long time, and added to the intractable problems of the Information and Communications Technology, ICT, ecosystem.
Danbatta admitted there are complexities in the telecom business today due to the activities of the OTTs but regretted that most industry players still focus traditional services like voice call and Short Messaging Services, SMS, which are now suffering decline while OTT services such as WhatsApp, Snapchat, Facebook Messenger and Skype are fast replacing them as primary methods of communication.
He added that the old business models created by the operators are no longer sustainable, saying this is why they are suffering gradual erosion of their Average Revenue Per User, ARPU. He outlined why the operators are complaining about the OTTs: “OTT is a service that is offered as a layer above the traditional services and this service in Nigeria include voice services, and a few other applications such as WhatsApp, snapchat, Skype, Facebook, and rest of them.
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