Tag: Okoh Aihe
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No good news from the broadcast industry yet – By Okoh Aihe
For most of last week, Multichoice was in the news. The organisation that has dominated PayTV business in Nigeria for over three decades, is facing consequential financial atrophy, having lost 243,000 subscribers across its DSTV and GOtv platforms in just six months, from April to September this year, as disclosed in its Interim Financial Reports.
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Even in technology, it’s America First – By Okoh Aihe
The American Elections are over and President Donald Trump won convincingly, literally blowing Kamala Harris out of the political space. The contrarians had their emotional expectations but the big boys who spent their money for Trump and the ordinary folks in the motley crowd, had their way.
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How would Dokpesi have responded to AI? – By Okoh Aihe
On a day that Dr Raymond Dokpesi should have been 73 penultimate week, he wasn’t around because he has gone on a long trip. But his friends still came in his absence to speak some kind words as befitting reminiscences for the life of a good man whose memory should be kept alive in perpetuity.
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A rebasing brings telecoms industry to reality – By Okoh Aihe
Some folks who read this syndicated column every Wednesday have asked me at one point or the other, what beef do you have with the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC)? Not any, I would always say, although beef is not the best source of protein for a senior citizen. So, beefing can be an invitation to…
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Mr President, a Board for NCC – By Okoh Aihe
On this very day, I want to acknowledge with utmost respect that there could be so many items on President Tinubu’s plate, so I do not, by any means, want to add anything to that mix which could give even an elephant a headache. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown, they say.
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5G facing slow growth in Nigeria – By Okoh Aihe
I was going through some of my old writings last week and I chanced on a few of them focused on 5G technology. I was still nearly overwhelmed by the great expectations, the amount of euphoria and excitement that heralded the coming of the technology to our nation. It was almost attributed as a silver…
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Will there be garlands for NTA? – By Okoh Aihe
The Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) got its fair share of the wave of federal appointments as Mr Bayo Onanuga, the Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, last Friday, announced the appointment of seven Executive Directors
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Can WiFi 6 ignite a new industry story? – By Okoh Aihe
The Stakeholders Consultative Forum on Emerging Technologies which held in Lagos on September 19, 2024, as a precursor to the coming of WIFI 6, has animated industry discussions on the beautiful shape of things to come. It is a new world out there and the Nigerian C
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A DSO fight most unnecessary – By Okoh Aihe
Writing on the new Government’s initiative on the Digital Switchover (DSO) on August 28, 2024, we made the following observations on this column: “This has not said much about the place of the signal distributors and Set Top Box manufacturers who were encouraged to invest heavily in the DSO process and have hardly recouped some…
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Edo State on a digital radar – By Okoh Aihe
There is so much happening in Edo State at the moment. Elections are coming up on September 21, 2024, so the governorship candidates in the various parties are running from one end of the state to the other in frenetic campaigns to secure the votes of the people.