Multinational mobile telecommunications company, MTN, has informed its customers in Nigeria that they would not have access to the data subscription service until Sunday.

In a notice released to all subscribers titled ‘Service Upgrade Notice’, MTN said that they won’t be able to buy data on their phones effective 12 midnight Friday till 6am on Sunday, the telecommunication company has said.

As such, MTN’s 77 million subscribers, which makes up about 45 per cent of the total telecommunication market share in Nigeria, have been advised to subscribe for sufficient bundles that would last them till then.

“Due to an upgrade, data purchase will be unavailable from 12 midnight to 6am on April 25th, 2021.

“If you can, please recharge and buy a data bundle before this time. Apologies for inconvenience,” the notice read.

Recall that a conflict with commercial banks over the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data charges had led to the blockage of MTN customers from banking channels.

Although the differences between the MTN and the banks have been resolved, the telecoms giant was forced to link its millions of subscribers to fintech platforms such as Flutterwave, Jumia Pay, OPay, Kuda, Carbon and BillsnPay to enable its customers to recharge their phones electronically.