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By Technology Times Lagos. September 8, 2012: Skye Bank Plc has introduced a funds transfer service within its network of West African subsidiaries targeting stakes in an estimated $760 million moved among economies of the sub-region. The Nigerian Bank says the service leveraging its growing investments in technology to offer enhanced banking services to [...]
‘Gbenga Sesan Data is king and numbers don’t lie. However, any researcher or data lover will tell you how hard it is to happen upon some much-needed data in Nigeria. I’ve often had to use multiple primary sources to get data, which should already exist, for reports and research work around the Nigerian technology [...]
By Technology Times Reporters Lagos. August 5, 2012: The Nigerian Communications Commission is restructuring the Wire Nigeria (WIN) and State Accelerated Broadband Initiative (SABI), two major programmes expected to offer an undisclosed amount of subsidy funding to MTN Nigeria, Multi Links, IPNX, among other telecoms companies, the telecoms regulator has disclosed. MTN Nigeria has pulled [...]
“The pricing and the availability of broadband today bears many similarities to the pre GSM telecoms market – access to voice services was expensive if you got it and it didn’t always work because of infrastructure issues – remember those days of picking up the phone from the cradle and waiting for a dial tone! [...]
By Abbas Bolanle Lagos. July 21, 2012: Nigeria has parked Mobile Internet Units (MIUs), motorized cyber centres used to drive internet awareness as a vehicle for promoting diffusion into rural and underserved areas, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has told Technology Times. Director-General, NITDA, Cleopas Angaye, said in an exclusive interview [...]
By Abbas Bolanle Lagos. June 27, 2012. The Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN) and Nigerian ICT Forum of Partnership Institutions Ltd have forged an alliance that fosters connection of higher educational institutions in Nigeria (HEIs) into clusters that will also deliver benefits of lower pricing of bandwidth to member-schools. Both parties say the alliance [...]
Integrating the SIM card registration subscribers into a national security database network will provide the basis for a lawful interception regime in the country. This could potentially help our security agencies investigating criminal activities in the country and even become proactive in the prevention of crime as well. On the individual front, since the registration [...]
By Shina Badaru Lagos. June 4, 2012. MTN Group President and CEO, Sifiso Dabengwa is hopeful of a resolution within “the next few days” in the face-off between four sanctioned GSM network operators and the telecoms regulator over a N1.17billion service quality fine in Nigeria. Dabengwa told Technology Times in an exclusive Friday in [...]
If all goes according to plan, the nation’s telecoms regulator and the Big Four GSM networks are billed to meet today in a convergence that may define the way forward in the controversial N1.17b service quality fines imposed on the four companies, writes Shina Badaru Lagos. May 30, 2012. Barring a last-minute change of mind, [...]
By Olubunmi Adeniyi May 24, 2012: Chief Executive Officer, Signal Alliance, Collins Onuegbu has called on government to promote a sustainable policy that encourages growth of indigenous ICT firms to foster job creation in the economy. Signal Alliance, The leading service provider and integrator of information technology systems in Nigeria, says that government can [...]
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