January 28, 2025
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NCC approves MTN’s disconnection of Exchange Telecommunications over debts

by on December 27, 2024 0

By 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...

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MTN’s NTEL spectrum lease extension to boost 3G, 4G coverage

by on December 25, 2024 0

By 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...

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Amid concerns, MAFAB explains 5G operations, plans 102 sites

by on December 25, 2024 0

By 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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Nigeria’s 5G penetration leaps by 2.1% as data consumption hits 850,249.09 terabytes

by on October 29, 2024 0

  By Favour Unukaso ABOUT two years after its commercial launch in Nigeria, the Fifth-Generation (5G) network has hit 2.1 per cent penetration. Subscription statistics released on Monday by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) confirmed this. As of quarter one, precisely March, when NCC last released industry data, 5G penetration stood at 1.24 per...

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Nigeria to conclude NIN-SIM linkage exercise by September 14 as 153m lines linked

by on August 28, 2024 0

By Favour Unukaso THE Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) will conclude the SIM-NIN verification exercise by September 14, 2024. NCC in a statement, Wednesday, said the country has made significant progress in the Federal Government’s 2020 policy to link all Subscriber Identification Modules (SIMs) to National Identity Numbers (NINs). The Commission informed that to date,...

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