{"id":62515,"date":"2025-03-10T14:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T14:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62515"},"modified":"2025-03-10T14:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T14:52:12","slug":"outrage-as-nigerians-accuse-telecoms-of-vanishing-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/10\/outrage-as-nigerians-accuse-telecoms-of-vanishing-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Outrage as Nigerians Accuse Telecoms of \u2018Vanishing Data\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigerians are fuming over what they describe as rapid and unexplained data depletion, accusing major telecom providers of unfair practices.<\/p>\n<p>Social media has been flooded with complaints against MTN, Airtel, and others, with users alleging that data vanishes far quicker than expected\u2014even when devices are idle.<\/p>\n<p>One MTN subscriber who purchased a 1TB data plan in December 2024 reported losing 620GB in two months despite minimal usage.<\/p>\n<p>Another claimed 300GB disappeared in two weeks, forcing an additional purchase.<\/p>\n<p>Airtel users have echoed similar frustrations, saying their data runs out faster than on competing networks.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond data concerns, many have decried poor network quality and instability, with some struggling to stay connected despite significant data balances across multiple networks.<\/p>\n<p>Calls for action are growing, with subscribers demanding the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) intervene and some even pushing for legal action against telecom providers.<\/p>\n<p>As outrage spreads, network operators are yet to respond, leaving millions frustrated and demanding accountability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo Nigerians are fuming over what they describe as rapid and unexplained data depletion, accusing major telecom providers of unfair practices. Social media has been flooded with complaints against MTN, Airtel, and others, with users alleging that data vanishes far quicker than expected\u2014even when devices are idle. One MTN subscriber who purchased a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62517,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62515\/revisions\/62517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}