By Sola Balogun TELECOMMUNICATIONS operators in Nigeria earned N5.3 trillion in revenue from their service offerings in the country in 2023. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), which revealed this in the 2023 year-end performance report, titled: ‘2023 Subscriber/Network Performance Report,’ released yesterday, listed the operators to include the GSM players, which earned N4 trillion;...
Read MoreBy Favour Unukaso Telecommunications operators have been authorised to disconnect the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) codes assigned to nine financial institutions due to unpaid debts. This directive was given by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on Tuesday in a public notice signed by the Commission’s Director of Public Affairs, Reuben Muoka. NCC said...
Read MoreBy Alaba Samson AI in Nigeria said its 2025 InnovateAI Lagos, the second edition of its flagship annual artificial intelligence (AI) conference, with “Scaling AI Adoption in Nigeria: Catalysing Cross-Sectoral Innovation and Fostering Inclusive Growth” as focus is scheduled for February 21, 2025. The conference, billed to hold at the Landmark Event Centre in...
Read MoreBy Favour Unukaso THE Minister of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy, Dr Bosun Tijani, has said that new tariff hike will soon be approved for the sector. After meeting with the telecoms operators on Wednesday in Abuja, said the Nigerian Communications tions Commission (NCC) will soon come up with modalities for tariff adjustment in...
Read MoreBy Favour Unukaso TELECOMMUNICATIONS operators said they made a proposal of 100 per cent tariff hike to the regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in their plea for hike in tariffs on services offered including voice, data and digital. MTN Chief Executive Officer, Karl Toriola, disclosed this on Thursday, when he featured...
Read MoreBy Favour Unukaso TELEPHONE services may anytime from now experience disruptions as telecommunications operators have reiterated the need to load shed their operations to stay afloat. Telcos under the aegis of Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) on Monday said service shedding is critical to their survival since tariff hike appears not...
Read MoreBy Favour Unukaso ELON Musk satellite firm, Starlink, a player in Nigeria’s telecommunications sector has announced hike in its subscription fees in the country, effective January 27, 2025.The firm made the announcement in a public notice on Friday. This new development is coming about two and half months after it was suspended by...
Read MoreBy Favour Unukaso THE Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has approved the disconnection of Exchange Telecommunications limited from MTN over interconnect debt. Interconnect debt is the accumulation of stipulated amount of money recorded over a period of time for all telecoms calls that were generated from one network and terminated on another network. NCC in...
Read MoreBy Favour Unukaso THE Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has approved the renewal of the spectrum lease agreement between MTN Nigeria Communications PLC (MTN Nigeria) and Natcom Development and Investment Limited (NTEL). This new agreement now includes coverage in all states including the FCT. This agreement covers the lease of NTEL’s 5MHz frequency division...
Read MoreBy Favour Unukaso AMID concerns of not deploying services two years after obtaining the Fifth-Generation (5G) network licence from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Mafab Communications has said that it is steadily advancing the technology in Nigeria. The NCC granted licenses to MTN Nigeria and Mafab Communications Limited to roll out 5G services on...
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