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The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC has uncovered eight million forceful subscriptions to telecoms services, and this was revealed in full audit carried out on 45 VAS providers that had over 65 per cent forceful subscriptions. NCC who is Nigeria's telecoms [...]
The Internet speed in Nigeria has remained slow despite recording increasing subscriptions to third generation of wireless technology, 3G and fourth generation of wireless technology, 4G in the past one year. Nigeria ranked 107th in mobile Internet download speed as [...]
The Federal Government has denied the allegation making the rounds in the media that it had connived with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to work with Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the country to shut down Internet access during [...]
Facebook says it is unveiling a new incubation programme, in partnership with its Nigerian satellite hubs to help local start-ups and upcoming entrepreneurs realise their business goals. Facebook Developer Programme Manager Kendra Nnachi said in a statement on Wednesday in [...]
WhatsApp users in the country on Wednesday rejoiced that the messaging app did not crash on Tuesday contrary to what was experienced in some parts of the world. It would be recalled that several users worldwide, both on Android and [...]
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) on Monday announced that it would shut down radio and television stations owing the commission licensing fees. The Director General, Is’haq Modibbo Kawu said that any broadcasting station that failed to come up with a [...]
Oyo State government yesterday demolished the Music House, a building belonging to popular Juju musician, Yinka Ayefele, along Challenge-Toll Gate Express Way, which houses Fresh FM Station in Ibadan. Ayefele claimed that the property, which was pulled down about 4:30am, [...]
About 36.6 million telephone lines have been withdrawn from some telecommunications operators from the National Numbering Plan (NNP) with effect from March 20, 2018. A telephone numbering plan is a type of scheme used in telecommunication to assign telephone numbers [...]
Etisalat Nigeria on Thursday changed its brand name to 9Mobile. The change of name, it was gathered, was approved at a management meeting, with the public relations consultant to the telco, Chain Reactions, confirming the development. Chain Reactions, promised to [...]
The Nigerian Senate has condemned the proposed increase of data tariffs by telecommunications service providers, in line with the directive of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC. Rising from a plenary session on Wednesday, November 30, 2016, Dr. Bukola Saraki, the [...]
Zuckerberg Adds Hausa Language: Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, Friday, added Hausa language, Fula, and two others, Maltese and Corsican to Facebook, making the social media platform become available in more than 100 languages. Zuckerberg announced this yesterday where [...]
In a bid to deepen competition and force mobile phone operators to provide better service to their customers, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, on Monday launched the Nigerian Mobile Number Portability service to guarantee freedom for telecoms subscribers. Here are [...]
The Nigerian Communications Commission has released a new set of interconnection rates for voice services for the country’s telecommunications industry targeted at bringing down call tariffs. The review, which will start from April 1, 2013, was agreed on after comprehensive [...]
Nigeria’s GSM networks internet usage increases to 81 million – The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, declares the number of internet users on the Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) networks has grown from 76,322, 802 in 2014 to 81,892,840 in January [...]
A lot of investments have been made in Africa’s Internet and Broadband sector between 2009 and now, with most parts of Africa gaining access between 2009 and 2010, according to reports, wholesale prices for Internet bandwidth have come down by [...]
NCC Plans Cheaper Internet Connection, Price Caps On Cable Transmission – FOR market competition and to assure affordable Internet connection everywhere in the country, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is going to set price limits on the cable transmission segment of [...]
Nigeria has attained 100 % tele-density, Says NCC – Dr Eugene Juwah, the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC), declares that Nigeria has reached a teledensity of 100 % as at January 2015. Juwah, who was represented by [...]
NCC, Operators To Meet On 2.6GHz Licence Auction – The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) would very soon meet with mobile telecommunications operators as well as stakeholders in the industry to make an amended framework for the 2.6 Gigahertz (GHz) spectrum licence [...]
Airtel Invests Sh2.5 Billion to Update 3G Network – Bharti Airtel, a top telecommunications services provider having operations in 20 countries throughout Asia as well as Africa, has declared that it has expended Sh2.5 billion to upgrade its network to boost [...]
NBC to Sanctions Erring Broadcast Stations – Concerned by the high level of loathe speeches, personality assaults and demonizing documentaries within the nations broadcasting surroundings, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has threatend to sanction several broadcast channels for contravening the National [...]
The recent directive by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on new price cap for domestic off-net short message service (SMS) of N4 (Four Naira) per message from February 5, would translate to a huge loss of over N222billion to the [...]
Ascend Mate 7 Smartphone is now in Nigeria – Ascend Mate 7 Smartphone is now in Nigeria – We are aware that the people at Huawei plan to hold a media event this March 1 when Mobile World Congress 2015 starts, [...]
Nigeria Gov to connect 50 % the population to high speed broadband in 2015 – The Nigerian Government has exposed intentions to connect 50 % of its population to 3G broadband throughout 2015. Nigeria’s ICT Ministry plans on accomplishing this via the [...]
Wireless Network Org Deploys 79 Base Stations To Nigeria – The Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF) has stated it had stationed 79 Base Transceiver Stations (BTS) in unserved as well as underserved communities throughout the country. The Secretary of USPF, Mr. [...]
Ethio Telecom Signs Contract with Ericsson to Boost Network in Ethiopia – Ethio Telecom on Tuesday, signed a contract with Ericsson targeting to improved quality of network coverage, richer and even more impressive mobile communication services to customers. The agreement aims [...]
Nigeria ICT Sector Gets Global Praise – Houlin Zhao, the newly-elected Secretary General of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), has praised Nigeria on its broadband policy campaigns and achievements documented in the sector. According to a statement obtained by this publication [...]
Although Etisalat is known as a newest operator within Nigeria’s competitive telecommunication industry, that houses MTN, the largest mobile operator in Africa, the UAE-based operator is nurturing a constant development in subscriber base throughout its 6-year reign, rising to [...]
Being the fastest developing telecommunications market on the planet, Nigeria is to obtain 24 million smart phones end of this year. This was disclosed at the launch of 10 phones by Wiko Mobile, a French mobile phone maker by the [...]
The Canadian telecommunications firm BlackBerry is scheduled to send out its brand new smartphone, Passport, throughout South Africa next month, it mentioned on Wednesday. The exclusively-created Passport is the fourth piece of equipment that the firm has launched in South [...]
Dr Mobola Johnson, Minister of Communication Technology, has called for collaboration of stakeholders at regional as well as international levels in order to increase ubiquitous internet connection throughout Africa. She made this call at the main session of the ninth [...]
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