By Favour Unukaso THE Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, has congratulated the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Pantami, on his appointment as the chairman of the 2022 World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) Forum by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Danbatta described...
Read MoreBy Adeyemi Adepetun FOLLOWING the final approval for a Payment Service Bank (PSB) licence granted by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), MTN Nigeria’s fintech subsidiary, MoMo Payment Service Bank (MoMo PSB) Limited, formally commenced operations yesterday, the firm has disclosed. MTN said this follows a successful pilot initiated on May 16, 2022, which was...
Read MoreBy Adeyemi Adepetun THE number of mobile operators committed to rapid emissions cuts has increased by more than 50 per cent over the last year, according to the Global System for Mobile telecommunications Association (GSMA). GSMA in its 2022 Mobile Net Zero Report revealed that 49 operators representing 62 per cent of the industry...
Read MoreBy Adeyemi Adepetun VALUE added service (VAS) providers otherwise known as content owners, earned N185 billion from technology firm, MTN in the last one and half decades. MTN Chief Executive Officer, Karl Toriola, made this known, during his presentation at the Pan Atlantic University, where he unveiled the Media Innovation Programme (NIP) in collaboration...
Read MoreBy Adeyemi Adepetun THE Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has allayed fears emanating from subscribers in the country following the agitation by telecommunications operators to increase services tariffs. NCC said it has monitored with keen interest the deluge of reports in the media on the demand by Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) ostensibly to increase tariffs...
Read MoreBy Adeyemi Adepetun SMARTPHONES shipment across the various markets fell by 11 per cent in quarter one (Q1 2022) owing to ‘unsettled business environment’ fuelled by spikes in covid cases due to the Omicron variant, vendor uncertainty due to the Russia-Ukraine war, China’s resurgent lockdown policy and the implications of inflation around the world....
Read MoreBy Adeyemi Adepetun THE National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP) has deployed indigenous software for the implementation of Presidential Executive Order No.5. Director-General of NOTAP, Dr. DanAzumi Mohammed Ibrahim, announced this during a media chat in Abuja. He said the software, which was developed by a Nigerian firm, Cagewox Dot Net Limited,...
Read MoreBy Adeyemi Adepetun THE National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has expressed readiness to enforce the adoption of Nigeria’s domain name, .ng, especially among ministries departments and agencies (MDAs). NITDA recalled that in line with the digital economy policy, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) approved the National Second Level Domain Policy on February 16,...
Read MoreBy Adeyemi Adepetun GOVERNOR of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has assured investors of a conducive environment and policies that guarantee returns on investments. He gave the assurance at an event, organised by Google to announce the arrival of its 12,000km Equiano subsea Internet cable, in collaboration with WIOCC, the landing partner. The governor said...
Read MoreBy Adeyemi Adepetun THE Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has informed telecoms consumers, whose Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards are barred from making calls, that affected SIMs will not be unbarred by the service providers until they are linked with the National Identification Numbers (NINs) of the SIM holders. This information has become...
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