Tag: Telecoms
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Telecommunications – three hours in the past – By Okoh Aihe
The journey started in the bank and ended in the rain. Just a little transaction that demands your presence in the bank in one of those rare moments, since everything now comes at the press of a button, there was an indeterminate network downtime. So, you simply stay in the bank waiting for a miracle…
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Telecoms colloquium, beyond Holding Talks? – By Okoh Aihe
Late dramatist and playwright, Prof Ola Rotimi, once wrote a play, Holding Talks. In this work, which falls under the genre of theatre of the absurd, two characters are having a conversation forever or will ad nauseam be a better word? In this conversation, there is neither head nor tail and the repetition can be…
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NCC reveals over 8,000 telecom subscribers switched operators in Jan
Recover, Financial Markets NCCMobile number portability in Nigeria surged by 190 per cent in January 2025, with 8,708 subscribers switching networks compared to 2,998 in December 2024, data from the Nigerian Communications Commission showed. The data revealed that 9mobile recorded the highest customer losses, as 6,716 subscribers left the network for competitors. The operator, which…
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For telecoms, figures and counter figures – By Okoh Aihe
There has never been any doubt about the transformative power of technology both in terms of cash availability and socio-economic development of any environment or nation. You only need to look at the big tech companies in Silicon Valley at San Jose in the United States, and the top range tech companies in Asia to…
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Telecoms, a humble review of a minister’s Scorecard – By Okoh Aihe
It would have been some whiff of good news last week for the telecommunications industry if evidence on ground did not advertise the contrary, overwhelmingly. It was the turn of the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, to make his presentation at the 19th edition of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s Scorecard from…
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Telecoms: Regulatory lawmaking as a distractive pastime – By Okoh Aihe
The other day some idle lawmakers went to the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on a single mission: to intimate the head that they have put in motion the process of merging some parastatals under the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy. The parastatals include: the NCC, National Information Development Agency (NITDA), Galaxy Backbone and NigComSat.…
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ITU elects first female scribe
Member States of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have elected Ms Doreen Bogdan-Martin of the USA as the organisation’s next Secretary-General.
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National Assembly denies telecoms a space on election matters, By Okoh Aihe
By Okoh Aihe When the Senate President, Senator Ahmed Lawan, wakes up in the future to look at the history books, his name will be written in infamy. Reason being that at a time the country was drunken with violence and looked for good leadership to take momentous decisions, members of the National Assembly which…
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Olusegun Ogunsanya: A telecoms luminary gets a big continental call, By Okoh Aihe
By Okoh Aihe Good news is almost a rarity in the land; so, when it comes, we almost have to stand on the rooftop to celebrate it with big megaphones in our hands. The other day we celebrated Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for clinching top job as the Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO),…
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Reps to investigate abuse of expatriate quota by telecommunications service providers
The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate abuse of expatriate quota by telecommunications equipment vendors and service providers in the country. This followed the adoption of a motion by Rep. Bello Shinkafi (PDP-Zamfara) on the floor of the House on Tuesday. Speaking on the motion, Shinkafi said that the Immigration Act, 2015 and the…