Job loss looms in telecoms sector as Ovum report tells networks cut off VAS firms
Operators of Value Added Services (VAS), a group of third party service providers who rely on networks of GSM providers to drive their business may be in for trouble that may lead to job loss if the advice stemming from…
NCC, telecoms firms join resources to rebuild destroyed facilities in N/East
Nigerians in insurgency ravaged North Eastern part of the country may soon be reconnected with the other parts of Nigerian and the world as the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has started working with major telecoms companies for the rebuilding of…
NCC boss links seamless growth in sector to regulatory ingenuity @ MWC, Spain
Participants at the ongoing Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain have been made to understand that the observable success in Nigerian’s telecoms sector and its contributions to GDP are not unconnected to the high level regulatory ingenuity of the…
Finally, MTN posts first ever loss in decades
Leading continental telecoms giant, South Africa’s MTN, Thursday decried that it made a $200 million loss in 2016; the company’s first ever in a number of rising financial years. However, the company traced the misfortune to the huge fine in…
Revealed: Listing on Nigeria’s exchange part of MTN’s fine reduction deal with FG
Leading global news agency Bloomberg has disclosed that MTN is inching closer to hitting the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) based on the fact that it formed part of the deal to reduce the $5.2bn fine for breaches in deactivating over…
NCC declares 2017 Consumers Year, begins awareness March 15
In keeping with its resolve to better the lots of telecoms consumers, lead regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), will from the mid of this month flag off a new wave of campaign designed to celebrate telecoms consumers across the…
NMEC seals fresh deal to rely on NCC’s intervention to deepen mass literacy
As part of innovative drive to halt rising mass illiteracy in the country, the National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non formal Education (NMEC) has canvassed the intervention of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to spread mass literacy and…
Networks circumventing international calls termination rates due to high forex—Teniola
Contrary to news reports that the planned review of termination rates by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) will lead to rise in the cost of voice services provided by GSM networks across the country, the President of Association of telecoms…
