Subscribers’ seek sack of Minister over shifting of sanctions responsibility to Nigerians
Many angry Nigerians subscribers who have been experiencing impaired Quality of Service (QoS) have reacted to a statement issued by the Minister of Communications, Mr. Adebayo Shittu urging Nigerians to join hands with the Federal Ministry of Communications and the…
Tracking now: NCC finally secures soft landing for debt-ridden Etisalat with CBN, banks
It was reprieve for Mobile Network Operator, Etisalat on Friday following a meeting convened by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to find a quick resolution to the loan default crisis facing the company. A statement…
Relief underway for Etisalat as NCC rallies CBN, affected banks Friday for talks
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has made apparent inroad over the possible amicable settlement of the multi-billion non-performing loans owed three banks by Etisalat Nigeria. This indication is coming after a meeting Thursday afternoon in Abuja between the Executive Vice…
AMCON, banks, foreign investors’ line up for hostile acquisition of debt-ridden Etisalat
The state of non-performing loans and chronic debt profile of hitherto bustling telecoms giant, Etisalat has started to elicit takeover discussions amongst three set of groups including the traditional bad debts buyers, Asset Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON), banks and…
MTN’s delivery of 3,632 BTS in 2016 further douses exit speculations
There seems to be more gimmick than reality in the now collapsed exit speculations when some activities and network performance of the telecoms giant, MTN Nigeria are put on the table for a critical review. First, whereas many were thinking…
Spectranet’ll dominate ISP space for long due to QoS, marketing strategies—Venn
The managing director of leading Internet Services Provider (ISP), Spectranet Limited, Mr. David Venn has again disclosed that based on the supersonic speed of its 4G LTE driven services and tailored penetration models, the company will continue to be the…
FG, networks silent on dropping number of internet users in Nigeria
For more than one month after a chilling statistics released by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) said Internet users on Nigeria’s telecommunications networks declined to 92,446,687 in November 2016 and further slipped in October 2016, government has not reacted to…
OTT displacing international voice calls in Ghana as domestic calls, SMS gallop
Fresh statistics released by the National Communications Authority (NCA) on mobile calls between Ghana and the rest of the world show serious drop on both international incoming and outgoing mobile to mobile voice calls. Besides, outbound international traffic for the…
Bring down voice price cap officially from N50 to N20, NATCOMS tells NCC
President of the National Association of Telecommunications Subscribers (NATCOMS), Chief Deolu Ogunbanjo has called on the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to look at bringing down the price cap of N50 per minute to N20 per minute, since the cap had…
NCC declares ‘state of emergency’ on QoS, asks CBN to ease forex access for telecoms
Lead regulator of telecoms activities, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has declared State of Emergency on Quality of Service (QoS) provided by Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and other service providers. This is coming against the background of rising frustrations suffered…
