Section 2: illegal operation of telephone call offices, etc. As Amended by Section 2 of the TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL OFFENCES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2016

(1) A person who-
(a)
without lawful authority-
(i) operates a land line, a fixed or a mobile telephone call office (in this Act referred to as "telephone call office") for the purpose of selling or offering for sale any telephone service or any other telecommunications service; or
(ii) operates a pay phone; or
(iii) sells, offers for sale or engages in any other commercial activity connected with telecommunications,
is guilty of an offence.
(2) A person who-
(a) without lawful authority or a licence from an approved agency, sells, offers for sale or otherwise deals in any telecommunications equipment;
(b)
uses or buys any telephone service or any other telecommunications service in or from a telephone call office not approved by the approved agency,
is guilty of an offence.
(3) A person who is guilty of an offence under subsection (2) of this section is liable on conviction-
(a) in the case of an individual, to a fine of N500,000 or imprisonment for a term of 12 months or to both such fine and imprisonment; and
(b) in the case of a body corporate, to a fine of not less than N5,000,000.
(4) A person who operates a telecommunications service-
(a) without a licence from an approved agency; or
(b)
outside the terms and conditions of his licence,
is guilty of an offence.
(5) For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section-
"office" includes any building, house, room, apartment and structure in which the business of making or receiving telephone calls or any other telecommunications service is carried on.
[1997 No. 19.]