Boomplay, Airtel Nigeria partner to offer affordable music streaming service
Africa’s leading streaming platform, Boomplay and telecommunications giant, Airtel Nigeria, have sealed a strategic partnership that will offer see subscribers get access to more affordable streaming on Boomplay. Boomplay is a music streaming and download service provided by Transsnet Music…
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…
Minister, NGF keep InfraCos, MNOs incommunicado over real stand on RoW fees
Following the observed silence of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) to match action with words on its assurance that all issues relating to exorbitant charges on Right of Way (RoW) for telecoms Infrastructure Companies (InfraCos) and main network operators (MNOs)…
DEMS Volunteers’ seeks Executive Order to override NASS delay on CNI Bill
Leading national advocacy group, Digital Economy Media Support Volunteers’ (DEMS Volunteers’), a non-governmental group of media practitioners working on digital economy has decried snail speed applied by the National Assembly in passing the Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) Bill. Recall that…
Airtel backs up NCC position on drop calls, links 405 fibre cuts to road works
More industry leaders have joined the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in advancing the fact that fibre cuts arising from road construction activities nationwide remain one of the major causative factors in not only drop calls, but other manifestations of poor…
How Nigeria grossed Bharti Airtel’s continental earnings in full year results
Latest full year results of Bharti Airtel, has shown jumping performance in African business as subscribers on the continent rose by 10.7 per cent year-on-year to 98.9 million across 14 markets. The firm currently operates in Nigeria, Ghana, Chad, Gabon,…
Airtel group plans $1bn London listing ahead of joining MTN on NSE
Though Airtel Nigeria had made more pronounced efforts earlier last year on listing on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), emerging signals indicate that the India’s telecommunications firm Bharti Airtel, is considering a stock market entry in London for its subsidiary,…
Bharti Airtel may change thought on African operations following $52m profit in Q1
…May revise to join in bid for 9Mobile Parent company of Airtel Nigeria, Bharti Airtel who recently created an impression of reducing stakes in Africa may begin to change its mindset considering a strong profit of about $52million it recorded…
Airtel names Onoja, Vice President on Mobile Money segment
Telecommunications service provider, Airtel Nigeria, has announced the appointment of Veronica Onoja as Vice President for the telco’s Mobile Money segment. Under her new role, Onoja is tasked with bringing her significant experience in the East African mobile money market…
Be wary of messages notifying chances of using WhatsApp without internet, Airtel warns
Airtel Nigeria has advised Nigerians and mainly subscribers on it network to be vigilant in accepting certain messages being circulated which tend to show that a subscriber can make use of Whatapp without any access to internet. In an sms…