Mr David Venn, Managing Director of Spectranet Ltd has predicted that Nigerians would no longer pay for calls and Short Message Services (SMS), on mobile networks before the end of 2019.
According to DailyPost, Venn made this prediction on Wednesday 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.
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.
