Tag: Calls
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Nigerians lament call rates as 7.5% VAT increase bites hard
As the new Value Added Tax (VAT) regime takes full effect, 7.5 VAT is now being applied to phone calls and Short Message Services (SMS), leading to increase in calls and SMS charges, and Nigerians have blamed President Muhammadu Buhari for the increase. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Buhari proposed the Finance Bill 2019 and, forwarded same…
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Operators are world’s biggest spammers
After releasing its first report last year, Truecaller, taking a deeper look into the rising problem of spam calls, has found operators are the biggest spammers across the world. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Truecaller Insights report released on Tuesday revealed this finding. The report also revealed that telemarketing calls from financial services, debt collectors and insurance…
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Ekiti 2018: I’ve been receiving strange, threatening calls, text messages – REC
The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Ekiti State, Prof. Abdulganiyu Raji, has raised the alarm over receiving constant strange, threatening calls and text messages who politicians in the state. Raji said, “Most of these threats are from elders alleging that we are one-sided. “But they have forgotten that there are two sides to a coin, if…
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Facebook denies logging people’s calls, SMS without permission
The Facebook social media platform for connecting, communicating and collaborating has denied it is logging people’s call and SMS (text) history without their permission. TheNewsGuru reports, in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, there have been massive reports and allegations that the social media platform is logging the call and SMS (text) history of…