By Ndagi Job Goshi, GM of Liferay Africa When it comes to listing the regions that have embraced and taken the biggest advantage of digital transformation, most commentators wouldn’t put Africa anywhere near the top. And purely based on metrics, they would be right. According to BCG, Africa trails other …
Read More »NCC Arrests Five Suspects Over Fraudulently – Registered SIM Cards
As part of its routine enforcement activities to sanitise the industry of criminal elements, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has arrested no fewer than five suspected individuals for allegedly engaging in fraudulently registering and selling Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards. The hitch-free operation was carried out by a joint team …
Read More »NCC Boss, Danbatta to Deliver The Bullion Lecture 2021
The Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, is the distinguished personality to deliver the 2021 edition of The Bullion Lecture. Danbatta will speak on the theme: ‘Telecoms, Digital Banking and Nigeria’s Economic Development.’ at the annual Lecture scheduled to hold by 10 a.m. on Thursday, …
Read More »Communications Tax Bill Would Jeopardize Mobile Services Economic Impact – A4AI Urges
Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), has advised the Nigerian government not to pass its Communication Service Tax (CST) Bill into law. The body in its review of the bill said the nine per cent tax being proposed on communication services would jeopardise the country’s target of 70 per cent broadband …
Read More »Pantami Writes Buhari, Seeks End to Stamp Duty Crisis
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ibrahim Pantami, has assured stakeholders that the crisis between the Nigerian Postal Service and the Federal Inland Revenue Service over collection of stamp duties would soon be resolved. He said he had written the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and engaged …
Read More »NCC Gains FBNQuest Nod on Quality of Service Monitoring
A new study by FBNQuest titled ‘Telecommunications Sector Update – Now for Digital Transformation’, has said that the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) takes quality of service (QoS) very seriously. Study Rates NCC’s Monitoring of QoS High FBNQuest is a leading Merchant Bank & Asset Manager in sub-Saharan Africa, and a …
Read More »Mobile Telecoms Subscribers Hit 190.8 Million in April
Subscriptions across all telecommunications networks have maintained a steady growth pattern in one year, reaching 190,806,067 in April. This represented a marginal increase by 0.80 per cent or 1,523,271 as against the 189,282,796 recorded the previous year. Read Also: Mobile Data Traffic to hit 4Exabytes by 2025 – Ericsson Forecasts …
Read More »5G tech hold great potentials with no health hazard —NIEEE
The Nigerian Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (NIEEE), has said that the 5G technology has potentials to accelerate global industrial and environmental advancement without health implications. Mr Kings Adeyemi, NIEEE’s National Chairman, said in a statement in Lagos, recently, that the evolution of every stage from 1G to the …
Read More »Telcos to embrace cloud based architecture to remain relevant – Report
A new report from Arthur D. Little, AT&T, Deutsche Telekom and Telefónica has urged telecom operators across the world to virtualize their operations by embracing cloud based architecture to remain relevant. The report noted that moving to a more virtualized, converged and cloud-based architecture for its access networks, will enable telecom operators …
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