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By Olubunmi Adeniyi Lagos. November 6, 2012: Eugene Juwah, Executive Vice Chairman (EVC), Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has appealed to all Nigerians to make it their collective responsibility to protect telecoms installations from vandalisation and theft in their communities in order to safeguard the nation’s communication infrastructure base. The telecoms regulator also wants the [...]
EUGENE JUWAH Executive Vice Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission The growth of the telecommunications sector in Nigeria and indeed in sub-sahara Africa in the last ten years has been impressive. In Nigeria for example, tele-density has risen from 0.44% (about 400 thousand active lines) in 2001 to 72% (just over 100 million active) in 2012. This [...]
By Olubunmi Adeniyi Lagos. October 16, 20212: The Nigerian Communication Commission has defended the integrity of its licensing process in reaction to recent allegations that the nation’s telecoms umpire was involved in frequency spectrum racketeering in favour of some companies. NCC says it is giving its side of the story on the issue of [...]
By Olubunmi Adeniyi Lagos. July 27, 2012: Nigeria’s current broadband penetration figure is estimated to be less than seven per cent though still looking better than the continent’s average estimated at about four per cent, the nation’s telecoms regulator has said to underscore the urgent need to refocus growth of high speed internet service. [...]
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, [...]
The ICT Youth Empowerment Summit on the theme, “Developing Nigeria’s Next Generation of Software Entrepreneurs” was hosted recently by the Jim Ovia Foundation in Lagos. The Summit, which is the initiative of Chairman of Visafone, Jim Ovia, was also graced by Minister of Communication Technology, Omobola Johnson; Executive Vice Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Eugene [...]
By Olubunmi Adeniyi Lagos. May 11, 2012. MTN Nigeria and three other GSM networks have been fined a total of N1.17 billion in penalty for providing poor quality telephony service to mobile phone users in Nigeria, in a no-more-business-as usual hammer wielded by the nation’s telecoms regulator. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the nation’s [...]
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