By Adeyemi Adepetun THE Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has introduced a new international termination rate (ITR), which takes effect from September 1. This is the second within eight months. The new rate, which is now $0.10 (10 cents per minutes) as against the earlier $0.045, will still be paid in dollars and operators...
Read MoreBy Adeyemi Adepetun OVER 50,000 cases of major destruction to telecoms infrastructure and facilities have been reported across the country in the past five years, raising alarm over the implication of these incidents to the quality of telecommunications services in Nigeria. Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, who...
Read MoreBy Staff Writer AS part of the measures to ensure growth of indigenous telecoms operators, experts have beckoned on the Federal Government to enforce data sovereignty and local residency. The Chief Executive Officer of Open Access Data Centre (OADC), Ayotunde Coker, who made this call, said data centres in the country have evolved...
Read MoreBy Adeyemi Adepetun AMIDST energy crises currently ravaging almost the entire fabrics of the economy, there appears to be succor for telecoms operators’ expansion to rural areas. Precisely, Hotspot Network Ltd. (HNL), a telecoms service provider, and Husk Power Systems, have inked a deal in Nigeria to transition mobile towers from diesel generation...
Read MoreBy Favour Unukaso THE Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Pantami, is excited to hear of the remarkable contribution of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector to Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the second quarter of 2022 (Q2 2022). The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) stated this in the ‘Nigeria’s...
Read MoreSMILE Nigeria has again emerged the winner of the African Brand Leadership Merit Awards as Africa’s Best Internet Access and Data Connectivity Service Provider of the Year 2022. The latest awards, which benchmark industry leadership performance, was earned by Smile for its brand equity in which is ingrained the properties of high visibility, product...
Read MoreBy Favour Unukaso ONE of world’s Internet Exchange operators, AMS-IX and MainData Nigeria Limited (MDXi), an Equinix company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to operate and grow Internet Exchange services in Africa. AMS-IX will be setting up an Internet exchange at MDXi, the carrier-neutral Data Center of MainOne in Nigeria. MDXi will act...
Read MoreBy Adeyemi Adepetun MTN Nigeria Communications Plc kicked off an open Fifth- Generation (5G) pilot in the lead-up to its highly anticipated commercial launch. The Company, which intends to launch 5G services in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Ibadan, Kano, Owerri, and Maiduguri, is testing the next-generation network infrastructure. Customers with certain enabled devices...
Read MoreBy Favour Unukaso SOME 5.7 billion people in 76 countries have experienced both partial and total Internet shutdown since 2015 till date. Also, in the first half of the year, Internet disruptions affected more citizens, about 1.89 billion people compared to 1.54 billion in 2021’H2, though the cases reduced by 14 per cent....
Read MoreBy Adeyemi Adepetun THE Nigerian Communications Commission’s Computer Security Incident Response Team (NCC-CSIRT) has urged organisations to adopt stronger cybersecurity measures like ensuring their employees use strong, unique passwords for every account and enabling multi-factor authentication (2FA) wherever it is supported to prevent ransomware attacks. It also advised organizations to ensure regular systems...
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