NCC wins ATCON’s NTITA Awards for industry regulations
Executive Vice Chairman of Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof Umar Danbatta, receiving the Association of Telecoms Companies of Nigeria’s (ATCON) Nigeria Tech Innovation & telecom Awards (NTITA 2017) from the ATCON President, Engineer Olusola Teniola, held in Lagos over the…
Worried by multiple taxation, ATCON set to meet Govs over RoW
Rising from the 2017 edition of the Telecoms Executives and Regulators’ Forum (TERF) held weekend in Lagos by the Association of Telecoms Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), indications have emerged on fresh moves by telecoms operators to meet with all the…
Minister, NCC cite conflicting figures on inflows in ICT sector
An official confusion capable of embarrassing the industry and causing distrust in the use of facts and figures coming from the nation’s telecoms sector is currently playing out between the leadership of the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) and the supervising…
NCC explains presence at ITU, mute on ‘Where to invest in Africa’ report
The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof Umar Danbatta, on Tuesday addressed visitors to the Nigerian pavilion at the ongoing ITU Telecom World conference, in Busan, South Korea. According to him, “We come to the ITU…
Nigerians spend N2.67tn on 40 million terabytes of data monthly
The executive vice chairman of Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta has revealed that “The monthly data usage in Nigeria is about 40 million terabytes.” He made the disclosure while playing host to the visiting chairperson of Liberia Telecommunications…
NCC, Ikeja Computer Village to seal MoU on ending substandard devices
In keeping with his drive to deliver on his 8-Point Agenda, the Executive Vice Chairman of Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof Umar Danbatta has visited the popular Ikeja Computer Village, Nigeria’s equivalent of Silicon Valley and Bangalore, ICT hub of…
NCC, Gombe Varsity host Telecoms Consumer Conversation Forum, assures on QoS
The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, has reiterated the Commission’s continuous drive to improve the quality of consumer experience across the country. Danbatta made this public at Gombe State University, Gombe where a…
How issues surrounding Etisalat’s $1.2bn loan crisis watered down Glo’s interest
More details emerged over the weekend indicating apparent loss of interest by Globacom in finalizing acquisition plans of the embattled Etisalat Nigeria. The key factors that botched the plan was traced to the unresolved debt crisis, the entire handling, information…
For being among fastest growing ICT nations, IPv6 very urgent in Nigeria—Danbatta
The Executive Vice Chairman of Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof Umar Danbatta has explained the reason why Internet Protocol (IP) version 6 is very crucial to Nigeria at the opening ceremony of the 2017 International Workshop on IPV6 and INRM…
Microsoft did damage to Nigeria’s FDIs’ drive by that relocation statement—Experts
Industry analysts have taken a swipe on the management of Microsoft, not just for deciding to move its announced Nigeria bond $30bn twin data centre investment to South Africa, but for issuing a worldwide statement capable of misleading other deep…
