Growing OTT Challenge to Crash Operator’s Voice Revenue by 45%

Mobile operator voice revenue will drop to $208 billion by 2024 from $381 billion in 2019, as users continue to prefer more flexible and free OTT (Over-the-Top) services. Juniper Research…

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  • December 31, 2019

MTN Linked to Payments to Taliban, al Qaeda in U.S. Complaint

MTN (MTNJ.J), South African telecom firm has said it was reviewing allegations that it, alongside other firms, violated the U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act by paying protection money to al Qaeda and…

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  • December 30, 2019

Corruption Rock NIMC Enrolment as Workers Frustrate NIN Registration

The National Identity Management Commission has dismissed six of its workers for engaging in extortion in the course of the ongoing National Identity Number enrolment exercise, investigations by Sunday PUNCH…

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  • December 24, 2019

Buhari Makes Major Appointments in Communication & Digital Economy Ministry

The Nigerian government has made major appointment as part of its desire of fast-tracking the targets and mandate of the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy. President Muhammadu Buhari made…

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  • December 24, 2019

NCC Partners NOA to Boost Telecoms Consumer Education

The Enugu Zonal Office of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has received the nod of the Enugu Office of the National Orientation Agency (NOA) to leverage the latter’s programmes and…

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  • December 23, 2019

Nigerian Tech Innovators to Contest in NCC Creativity Competition

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has shortlisted 25 technological Innovators to contest in Innovation Competition and Exhibition organised by the NCC with the focused on “Promoting Innovation and Creativity in…

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  • December 19, 2019

Bella Disu Bags French Eminent National Honour

Globacom’s Executive Vice Chairman, Mrs. Bella Disu, has been awarded the French national honour of “Chevalier dans l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres” (Knight in the Order of Arts and…

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  • December 18, 2019

Vodacom Tanzania, WorldRemit Launch Mobile Money Transfers to M-Pesa Accounts

Digital money transfer service WorldRemit has partnered with Vodacom Tanzania to enable nine million M-Pesa customers to receive money directly to their M-Pesa wallets from friends and family living abroad.…

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  • December 18, 2019

Internet Society Foundation Unveils $300,000 in Grants for Benefits of the Internet Projects

The new Internet Society Foundation has issued its first set of medium and large grants (ranging from $12,000 to $30,000 each) to 13 ground-breaking projects that seek to spread the…

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  • December 17, 2019

NIMC Approves 586 Local Partners NIN Data Collection, Issuance

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has opened and sorted about 586 local partners’ submission for the Expression of Interest (EOI) for the provision of Data collection and issuance of…

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