Nigerian and Chinese authorities yesterday in Beijing inked another contract to replace the NigComSat-1, the Nigerian communications satellite that failed in orbit last year after a system malfunction.

The Nigerian Communications Commission is to revisit the issue of number portability, the ability of a customer to transfer from one phone operator to another and retain the same number, at the 50th edition of its Consumer Parliament.

The Nigerian Communications Commission has set a terminal date of January 2010 for mobile phone users in the country to register their personal identity as required by law enforcement agencies with service providers.

CEO, Zain Group, Saad Al Barrak, has said that the Kuwaiti mobile phone company which holds controlling stakes in Nigeria's number two player, Zain Nigeria has closed a $324million to acquire stakes in Morocco's third telecoms operator, Wana.

The Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Engr. Ernest Ndukwe has told those advocating for operating companies to concentrate services in few urban centres so as to achieve 100 per cent quality of service while the rural areas will be denied of services to forget the idea and drop their phones.

The Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Engr. Ernest Ndukwe has told those advocating for operating companies to concentrate services in few urban centres so as to achieve 100 per cent quality of service while the rural areas will be denied of services to forget the idea and drop their phones.

Nigeria, which now boasts over 61 million subscribers, has now surpassed South Africa as the largest mobile telecom market in Africa, and continued growth over the next five years is expected to trigger more intense competition among a growing number of network operators, according to a new report from Pyramid Research, the telecoms research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network.

CeBIT 2009, world