At the end of a two-day National Stakeholders Summit recently held in Abuja by Ashcraft Centre for Social Science Research, stakeholders who participated have suggested ways to stamp out the challenges of infrastructure vandalism and destruction of business assets in Nigeria. In a communiqué issued after the summit on Protecting …
Read More »Huawei Develops Technology to Stop Crude Oil Theft In Nigeria
Chinese multinational technology firm, Huawei Technologies, has revealed that it had developed an intelligent pipeline monitoring system to help tackle crude oil theft in Nigeria. This was disclosed by the Director of Huawei Nigeria Enterprise Business, Mr Li Wei, at a news briefing on the sidelines of the ongoing Nigerian International …
Read More »NCC, NESG Collaborate to Boost Telecoms Impact on Nigeria’s Economy
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG) are considering possible areas of increasing collaboration to enhance the impact and contribution of telecommunications sector on Nigeria’s socio-economic development. This was the crux of deliberations during a courtesy visit by a delegation of the National Assembly Business …
Read More »NCC, Judiciary Collaborate to Protect Telecoms Infrastructure
In a bid to further protect telecoms infrastructure in the country, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has restated its commitment to continue to strengthen collaboration with judicial institutions in Nigeria. The Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Commission, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, gave the assurance during a courtesy visit by …
Read More »Telcos Record 9,077 Service Outages in Q2 2020, NCC Calls for Telecom Infrastructure Protection
…Warns service providers against unwholesome practices Major mobile network operators (MNOs) in the country recorded 9,077 cases of service outages on their networks in the second quarter of the year, resulting in unexpected disruptions to operators’ network quality of service (QoS) delivery and intermittent quality of experience (QoE) by the …
Read More »Senate goes tough on GSM operators as drop calls increase
…accuse Telcos of defrauding Subscribers The Senate has lashed out heavily on GSM operators in Nigeria over increasing rate of drop calls in the country. During a public hearing, the Senate has accused Telecommunications Network Operators in Nigeria of robbing subscribers of their hard earned money which is now running …
Read More »Why Telecoms Consumers Experience Early Data Depletion, Rise in Data Usage – NCC
Experience of early depletion and rise in data consumption by telecoms consumers are not necessarily as a result of ‘illegal deductions’ or ‘sharp practices’ by Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) but more as a result of varied factors. This was the position of Prof. Umar Danbatta, the Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) …
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