Airtel Partners AXA Mansard to Unveil Mobile Health Insurance via USSD
Customers Can Now dial *987*7# to Enroll for Health Insurance Scheme Leading telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria and leading service provider in the healthcare sector, AXA Mansard, have announced a strategic partnership to deepen access, participation and enrolment in health…
NBS reveals how MTN tops subscribers’ base as Glo flows
Details from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on its latest fact-sheet have revealed that MTN Nigeria has the highest share of subscriptions in the country. In its second quarters (Q2) and third quarter (Q3) 2020, publication on telecoms data…
Airtel wins big at LAIF, Pitcher Awards in Lagos
Leading telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria, has won a total of 20 awards at the 2020 edition of the Lagos Advertising and Ideas Festival Awards (LAIF), an award platform designed to recognize creative excellence as well as promote excellence in…
Why Airtel’s Touching Lives won Marketing Edge Innovative CSR Leadership Award
It was glitz, glamour and elegance at the Marketing Edge Awards Night as distinguished Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) and media practitioners recently converged at D’Podium International Event Centre on the highbrow Aromire Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos. As expected, the Marketing Edge…
GTB Report uncomfortable with CBN’s plot to licence telecoms as PSBs
Facts have emerged revealing that many money deposit (MDBs) banks in Nigeria led by Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) are clearly against the planned licensing of telecommunications companies as Payment Service Banks (PSBs). This was made public vide a new report…
NFMC with NCC, NBC must find level playing ground on access to 700Mhz—Teniola
Since MTN Nigeria bought the supposedly broadcast frequency; 700Mhz, from the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) which was said to be lying fallow when payment of N34b was made, there has been some levels of disquiet in the industry on the…
Bharti Airtel may list on Nigerian Stock Exchange before MTN Nigeria if…
There are strong indications that leading Indian player in the nation’s telecoms industry, Airtel may hit the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) for listing earlier than MTN Nigeria. This emerged from the discovery that parent company of the group, Bharti Airtel…
MTN overrides others as internet subscribers hit 98.3m in December
Whereas latest statistics on Nigeria’s internet uptake has shown that users increased marginally to 98.3million in December 2017, the figures revealed that MTN Nigeria grossed network users with 2,642.666, new internet users, thus increasing its subscription in December to 36,069,597,…
9mobile sale: Airtel, Helios petition FG over confidence issues
Fresh controversy is about to envelope the nearly concluded sales process of embattled 9mobile, formally Etisalat Nigeria. Only yesterday, Wednesday, indication emerged that Bharti Airtel International, owners of Airtel Nigeria and UK private equity firm, Helios Investment Partners, have petitioned…
9mobile: Confidence crisis hits sale as 3 out of 5 finalists develop cold feet?
Inability of the sales handlers to deny a report by The Cable since weekend that three out of the five shotlisted five companies including Airtel, Helios and Globacom may have developed cold feet in the final bidding round of troubled…