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By Olubunmi Adeniyi Lagos. December 20, 2012: Gbenga Sesan, Executive Director, Paradigm Initiative (PIN) has encouraged Nigerian youth to get engaged in the implementation of the National Information and Communication Technology (ICT) policy to accelerate the country’s development process. Sesan made this statement on Monday at the Review of the Nigerian National ICT Policy event [...]
By Olubunmi Adeniyi Lagos. December 19, 2012: Airtel Nigeria has made a case for speedy implementation of the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) in the country saying that the process will promote healthy competition amongst mobile phone operators and improve quality of service. With the go-live of Mobile number portability (MNP), mobile telephone users will be [...]
By Ibrahim Olukotun Lagos. December 18, 2012: MTN Nigeria and Glo Mobile, the number one and two mobile phone operators by subscriber numbers in the Nigerian telecoms market have been ranked among Top 7 mobile telecoms powerhouses in Africa. According to recent African market subscriber information from ABI Research, MTN Nigeria ranks number one [...]
By Ibrahim Olukotun Lagos. December 17, 2012: Phone dealers in Lagos have decried the rising influx of substandard China phones into Nigeria citing that the growing trend may undermine the user experience in the local telecoms market. Baring their minds on the issue in Lagos in separate interviews with Technology Times, Iyke Nwosu, President [...]
By Olubunmi Adeniyi Lagos. December 16, 2012: Nigeria’s personal computer ownership stand at an abysmal 4.5 percent of her teeming population, a major technology gap in the continent’s most vibrant telecoms market, a new government study has uncovered. This is pitted against official information showing that the nation’s telecoms market currently has over 100 million [...]
By Ibrahim Olukotun Lagos. December 16, 2012: The Delta State Government has partnered with National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) in training forty computer engineers and information technology graduates for its pilot website design training. The training, which is planned to be held twice a year, is set to equip engineering graduates in the state [...]
By Olubunmi Adeniyi Lagos December 13, 2012: The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says it has okayed new rules for disconnecting operators that default in meeting their interconnect payment obligations as part of measures to ensure sustainable growth in the nation’s telecoms sector. Eugene Juwah, Executive Vice Chairman, NCC, says that the telecoms regulator had on [...]
By Ibrahim Olukotun Lagos. December 13, 2012: Mobile phone company, Airtel has announced the successful completion of its Long Term Evolution (LTE) trial operations in Lagos raising hopes out go-live of the service supporting faster data speeds on mobile networks. LTE which is widely accepted as true fourth generation (4G) technology is a standard [...]
By Ibrahim Olukotun Lagos. December 12, 2012:Eugene Juwah, Executive Vice Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) today in Lagos reiterated the telecoms regulator’s commitment towards ensuring good quality of service for telecom subscribers. He made the promise at the Telecoms Executives and Regulatory Forum 2012 of organised by the Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria [...]
Technology Times Reporter Lagos. December 11, 2012: Alcatel-Lucent is to help Bharti Airtel meet rapidly growing demand for mobile broadband services in its African operations by supplying advanced new IP (Internet Protocol)-based networking technology to support the delivery of new mobile broadband data and video services. Announcing the Airtel deal, the equipment supplier says that [...]
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