Interviews

Exclusive: NCC selects operator for mobile number portability in Nigeria, says Juwah

Exclusive by Shina Badaru Abuja. September 10, 2011. Executive Vice Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr Eugene Juwah has confirmed that the telecoms regulator has selected a mobile number portability service provider in what will usher in a new era for Nigeria’s teeming mobile phone users to change service provider and still keep their unique [...]

NIRA COO: Why Nigeria’s domain name is today’s hottest internet real estate

The new Chief Operating Officer, Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), the multi-stakeholder group responsible for the management of the country code top level domain (ccTLD), the dot ng (.ng), Ope Odusan, is worried over the relative lack of in-country awareness of the potentials of what is popularly consider the nation’s prime cyber real estate. He [...]

Industry Insight

Top executives of the four biggest mobile phone companies and the telecoms regulator are billed to meet today at the NCC headquarter in Abuja (in picture) in a parley that will see the N1.17billion fine imposed on them topping the agenda

NCC, GSM Big Four meet today in Abuja on N1.17b service quality sanctions

By Technology Times Reporters in Lagos & Abuja Lagos. May 18, 2012. Top executives of the four biggest mobile phone companies are billed to meet with the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) today over the N1.17 billion fines imposed on the GSM quartet over poor quality service to subscribers in the country, Technology Times has learnt. [...]

New National ICT Policy unveiled, pushes for converged industry regulator

  By Technology Times Reporters in Lagos and Abuja Lagos. January 10, 2012. The Ministry of Communication Technology has kept its promise to release the draft National ICT Policy this week that is pushing towards a ‘converged’ industry regulator for the Nigerian ICT industry. Minister of Communication Technology, Omobola Johnson had announced that a draft [...]

As deadline expires, NCC moves to enforce sanctions against 3 GSM operators over service quality

By Niyi Akinrogunde Lagos. November 30, 2011. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) will conduct fresh rounds of test to verify compliance with a directive to three of the major GSM operators to raise service quality or risk a sales ban as the deadline expires today, the telecoms regulator has told Technology Times exclusively. In the [...]