Lagos — Perhaps, crises make Pioneer telecommunications company, Mobitel, stronger. The company since it announced interest for a comeback to active telecommunications operations, with the bidding and subsequent winning and payment of the controversial 2.3Ghz Wimax spectrum license recently, has itself been in and out of controversies.
It began with strong suspicions from government quarters, over how Mobitel, a company that recently applied for a waiver to the allegedly mountainous debts it was owing the federal government, could pay the 2.3Ghz licence money amounting to over One billion Naira, within one week.
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