The Consumer Affairs Bureau (CAB) of the Commission set the tone with the resolutions at its 2019 retreat tagged, "Consumer Experience in the Era of Rapid Digital Evolution", held recently at the 600-seater auditorium of the NCC Head Office Annex, Mbora District, Abuja.
The resolution is in keeping with NCC mandate on consumer protection as stipulated in the Nigerian Communications Act (NCA) 2003 and other extant Legal and policy instruments guiding the Commission's regulatory activities.
Felicia Onwuegbuchulam, Director, CAB, stated that the objective of the retreat was to streamline work processes for effective service delivery, improve stakeholders collaboration and engagement, and improve interdepartmental synergy, information flow and knowledge sharing.
She noted that the rapidity of technological innovation demands a re-strategising to ensure adequate protection for the telecoms consumer.
Onwuegbuchulam's submission was amplified by Adeleke Adewolu, NCC's Executive Commissioner Stakeholder Management who represented Prof. Umar Danbatta, NCC's Executive Vice Chairman, at the event.
Adewolu commended CAB for the timing and focus of the retreat, and for upholding the mandate of the Commission on consumer protection, information and education. He affirmed that innovative technologies and new business models could throw up challenges for consumer and stakeholder management.
He, further, submitted that CAB had invested time and other resources to reflect on how to ensure better consumer experience, urging the retreat to come up with concrete ideas for Management's consideration.
The retreat was marked by series of practical presentations on many aspects of consumer management. Brainstorming sessions and bonding exercises also took place at the two-day retreat to shape staff perspectives on emerging challenges in managing consumer experience.
The concluding part of the retreat was a panel discussion involving representatives of eight internal departmental stakeholders that CAB interfaces with in the carrying out its responsibilities. The discussion focused on fasttracking work processes to enable CAB to address consumer-related issues within the timelines stipulated by NCC's Standard Operating Procedure Manual.