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By Olubunmi Adeniyi Lagos. December 17, 2012: Ernest Ndukwe, co-Chair of the Presidential Committee on a National Broadband Strategy and Roadmap says the group will deliver an overall blueprint to ensure that Nigeria takes advantage of high-speed Internet services for economic development, “within shortest possible time.” Goodluck Jonathan, the President of Nigeria, recently set [...]
In an explosive interview with Technology Times, Bashir Gwandu, the Executive Commissioner, Technical Services, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), speaks on his role as the “whistleblower” in the alleged frequency racketeering that has trailed the nation’s telecoms regulatory agency and allied issues. Excerpts: TT: It has been alleged that the NCC Board has [...]
By Bolanle Abbas Lagos. September 7, 2012: GSM Village, a fast-growing technology market sited in Ikeja, the nation’s commercial centre says it is positioning to be the West African destination of choice for mobile phones and devices as the telecoms sector boom continues. The GSM Village Association, the umbrella body of over 100 businesses [...]
By Bolanle Abbas Lagos. September 6, 2012: The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says it is taking the campaign for international investors to ITU Telecom World event in Dubai holding October 14-12, this year to attract more investors in government’s push to deepen national broadband deployment. NCC says that under the platform of Nigeria@ ITU Telecom [...]
It is an early Thursday evening at the Ikeja Golf Club located at high brow Government Reserved Area (GRA) in Ikeja, the capital city of Lagos, the nation’s bustling commercial capital. On the road meandering to the serene undulating green golf course, you pass the nearby Nigeria Police College within the posh neighbourhood of [...]
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 [...]
New entrant Tablet PC maker, Websoft, expects new versions due out this July to deepen diffusion of Vantium in Nigeria, writes Bunmi Adeniyi Lagos. July 2, 2012. The booming market for Tablet computers opening a new era of mobility and convenience for mobile users has also unfolded a new era of competition among technology companies [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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