Nigeria: Airtel Bars Subscibers Over Workers' Protest

5 October 2011

Airtel subscribers yesterday could not make or recieve calls for several hours as the telecommunications firm shuts its facilities following "threats by its former workers to damage the facilities," the company said.

Sites in Abuja and Lagos were shut Sept. 30 after the operators "failed to reach agreement with workers on new employment terms," Emeka Opara, a spokesman for Airtel Nigeria, a unit of India's Bharti Airtel Ltd. told Bloomberg.

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