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  • Newly launched toolkit will protect you from hearing loss

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    The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) on Thursday launched a safe listening toolkit that will serve to protect music lovers from hearing loss. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports the toolkit for safe listening devices and systems was launched at a gathering of staff from WHO and ITU in celebration of the power…

  • International telecom regulator harps on safer internet

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    The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) says that ensuring the safety of internet users requires a global approach. The Director, Telecommunication Development Bureau, ITU, Doreen Bogdan-Martin, said this in a statement on Tuesday, as the world marked the ”Safer Internet Day 2019”. Safer Internet Day 2019, observed on February 5 is the day when governments, companies,…

  • How Nigeria attained 31% broadband penetration target – NCC

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    The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has confirmed that, based on empirical indices, Nigeria attained 31 per cent broadband penetration. NCC management said in a statement on Sunday that this was contrary to insinuations in some quarters that the country was far away from the 30 per cent target. NCC said that by the five-year National…

  • TNG year in review: How Nigeria achieved 2013-2018 broadband target

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    Nigeria, with the aim to drive internet and broadband penetration in the country, developed a five-year strategy, known as the Federal Government National Broadband Plan 2013-2018, through a presidential committee on broadband. To drive internet and broadband penetration in the country, the Federal Government National Broadband Plan 2013-2018 aimed to scale up Nigerian Communications Commission’s…

  • TNG list: Top tech events of 2018

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    As 2018 wraps up, we take a look at some tech events that heralded the year. PP-18 One of top technology events that heralded the year 2018 is the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Plenipotentiary Conference 2018 (PP-18) that held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) from 29 October to 16 November. The PP-18 is one…

  • NCC puts initiatives in place to fast-track internet access

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    To facilitate broadband penetration in the country and in a quest to bridge the digital divide, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has put in place initiatives to fast-track internet access in the country. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Prof. Umar Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, while stressing the Commission has taken services to several unserved and…

  • Global retail telecom revenues hit USD1.7 trillion

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    Ediri Oyibo
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    Global retail telecommunication revenues reached USD 1.7 trillion in 2016, representing 2.3 per cent of global gross domestic product (GDP), according to ITU’s new Measuring the Information Society (MIS) Report 2018 released on Tuesday. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports the telecom revenues in 2016 represented on average 3 per cent of GDP in Africa and the Arab…

  • NCC holds stakeholders forum on emerging 5G technology

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    Ediri Oyibo
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    Stakeholders in the telecommunications sector on Tuesday in Abuja held a one-day stakeholders forum to brainstorm on Nigeria’s readiness for 5G and High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) technology. The forum was organised by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). In his presentation, Prof. Umar Danbatta, the Executive-Vice Chairman NCC said the forum was to bring stakeholders…

  • How South Sudan is using ICTs to improve lives

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    Access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) is benefiting families, communities and industries in South Sudan. During ITU’s Plenipotentiary Conference 2018 (PP-18), Lily Albino Akol, the Honorable Deputy Minister of Information Communications Technology and Postal Services, discussed how South Sudan is employing ICTs to improve lives in the country. “The world is connected. We are…

  • Nigeria, 12 other countries get ITU membership seats

    Nigeria, 12 other countries get ITU membership seats

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    Nigeria and 12 other African countries have been elected into the membership of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Council and, Radio Regulations Board. At the 20th Plenipotentiary Conference of the Council, held at the weekend in Dubai, UAE, ITU Secretary General, Houlin Zhao, was also re-elected for another term of four years. The 153-year-old ITU,…