The Nigerian Communications Commission on Tuesday ruled out the likelihood of issuing any other mobile licence to another operator to serve the Nigerian market. Speaking at a one-day workshop on the Impact of Counterfeit/Substandard Mobile Devices in Abuja, Head, Wireless Network Unit at the regulatory agency, Mr Chukwuma Nwaiwu, said even if a new operator […]
Read MoreThe MTN Group has announced a partnership with China Mobile, chip-maker Unisoc and feature phone operating system, KaiOS, to bring affordable 3G ‘smart feature phones’ to the African market in the first few months of 2019. MTN Group CEO and President, Rob Shuter, made the announcement at a press briefing at AfricaCom in Cape Town […]
Read MoreSubscribers to Kwese TV in Nigeria have expressed dissatisfaction at the abrupt manner in which the satellite television company ended its pay TV services. Some of them said they only noticed that something was amiss when only 14 channels were showing out of over 65 channels on the cable TV. Subscribers, who just purchased the […]
Read MoreNigeria’s telecommunications company, Globacom, has announced the availability of its 4G LTE services in the 36 states of the West African country. Besides, Globacom said the service is also available in over 200 tertiary institutions, thus confirming it as the network with the widest LTE coverage in the country. Globacom, which is the nation’s national […]
Read MoreAnnual operator billed revenues from 5G connections will approach $300 billion by 2025, rising from $894 million in 2019, its anticipated first year of commercial service. This is an average annual growth of 163% in its first 6 years. The new study, 5G Market Strategies: Consumer & Enterprise Opportunities & Forecasts 2018-2025, from Juniper Research […]
Read MoreThe envoys of the United Kingdom and the United States of America in Nigeria have said that the problems being faced by leading telecommunications giant, MTN, have scared investors from both countries from Nigeria, resulting in some of them pulling back and others withdrawing fresh offers and taking them to neighbouring countries. The Central Bank […]
Read MoreAirtel Nigeria has formally launched its 4G LTE Network in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos. While speaking at the launch, the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Airtel Nigeria, Segun Ogunsanya, stated that the telco now has the best and widest 4G network coverage in the country. Ogunsanya revealed that the Airtel 4G network now […]
Read MoreLast night in Lagos, South West Nigeria, at the Nigeria Mobile Economy Summit and Expo, (NiMES) it was lots of encomium for the just retired Director of Public Affairs, Nigeria Communications Commission, (NCC), Mr. Tony Ojobo who was named the recipient of the ICON of African Information Society Merit award. Much of the encomium came […]
Read MoreSince GSM was first demonstrated in Cape Town in 1993 and the first GSM networks launched the next year, the telco industry has fundamentally transformed every country on the African continent. As some of the largest employers, most admired – and valuable – brands, and most innovative companies on the continent, telcos have been synonymous […]
Read MoreAfrica’s technology entrepreneur, Leo Stan Ekeh has asked the Nigerian Government to leverage technology in reducing to the barest minimum the growing incidences of corporate debts and usher in an era of unprecedented boom and sanity in the Nigerian economy. Ekeh, Chairman of the Zinox Group, while delivering the Guest Lecture at the maiden edition […]
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