Tag: Okoh Aihe
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A friend and his Nokia in a challenging telco environment – By Okoh Aihe
My friend called me within the week and was effusive at the other end but reality supervened. The phone simply went dead while he talked on. When we reconnected much later after several attempts from both ends, the first words that left his mouth was “I am returning to my Nokia 3310.” For me the…
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Looking at the books to make 5G a success story – By Okoh Aihe
In the euphoric readiness to receive 5G services into the country’s telecom ecosystem, nobody is noticing the fast disappearing line between the regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, headed by a Minister in the Ministry. While the regulator is in charge of regulating the industry, the Ministry…
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Subsea cables as metaphor for a great future – By Okoh Aihe
There is a point at which a point of advantage becomes a curse especially if the possessor fails or refuses to mine it’s advantages with the hope and prayer that it will last forever. They fail to observe the speedy evolutionary process of the world, especially in the tech ecosystem, with the fervent prayer that…
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Spiritual Intelligence shoots Prof Aibinu to the Summit – By Okoh Aihe
At the moment Aibinu calls himself an advocate of Spiritual Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence and AcadoPreneurship. The last word smells of obscurantism. But it simply means an academic who is delving into the world of business. He needs our prayers however as he tries to commercialise some of his research works.
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ITR: A good regulatory action plainly misunderstood – By Okoh Aihe
I had thought that the recently inaugurated International Termination Rates (ITR) by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the regulator of the telecommunications industry, was such a cute idea and had the potential of releasing more financial oxygen into a market that was getting inebriated with misfortunes.
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Troubling stones in the noodles of technology – By Okoh Aihe
For most of last week Obollo Afor and Okpella were on my mind. The more I look at the soaring cost of products and services in the broadcast and telecommunications industries, the more enamoured I was on these two towns in Enugu and Edo States respectively, that could provide some really good fun on a…
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Some observations and nuggets for the NBC Board – By Okoh Aihe
Messages were also pouring in. Have you heard? Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture has appointed a lackey to chair the Board of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). Some were ready to talk about the relationship between the Minister and Alhaji Lateef Bolarinwa, the newly appointed Board chairman, whom he has used…
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Technology: The shape of things that are here – By Okoh Aihe
It would have been pure entertainment or at best a comedy of errors if the issues being discussed did not have the capacity to elicit a tragedy of epic proportions if allowed to unfold uncontrolled. As in their manner to intervene in matters of national interest, members of the National Assembly were venting their spleen…
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War has no respect for telecoms or broadcasting – By Okoh Aihe
War is no war game. It is not reality TV or the world of make-believe. It is no time for make-up, pyrotechnics or stunting. What you see is what it is. Reality. Death. Disaster. And destruction in the extreme and very extensive.
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For 5G and Electoral Act, two important days in 2022 – By Okoh Aihe
There was a seeming deconstruction of reality last week. The second winner at the 5G auction, Mafab Communications Ltd, made payment of the balance of the $273.6m license fee on deadline day, February 24, 2022, thus completing the allegory of a David taking Goliath down with just an ordinary stone from a sling. In plain…