NCC grants MTN, 9Mobile permission for e-SIM Trial
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has granted approval for two mobile network operators (MNOs), MTN Nigeria and 9Mobile, to carry out a trial on the workability of embedded Subscriber Identification Modules (e-SIM) Service in Nigeria. The trial, approved to run…
NCC inaugurates Evaluation Committee for 2020 Research Proposals
The Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta has inaugurated a 15-member Evaluation Committee for the assessment of the 2020 Telecommunications based research from Academics in the Nigerian tertiary institutions. The Committee,…
NCC conducts virtual Bi-Annual Meeting with Telcos on Complaints Management
…Renews discussion with on Compensation Policy The regular bi-annual meeting of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and Senior Executives of telecommunication companies on complaints management held recently, and for the first time virtually, in compliance with COVID-19 management protocols instituted…
NCC, operators need stakeholders’ support for improved QoS – ICAF
The Industry Consumer Advisory Forum (ICAF) has advocated the need for stakeholders at the federal, state and local levels, both in public and private sectors, to work with the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) to collectively…
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…
We’re working with FG to ensure better future for Nigeria telecoms—ATCON
President of the Association of telecoms Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), Engr Olusola Teniola, has called for review of all taxes charged telecoms operators with the aim of relieving investors’ from over-taxation. Speaking in a national TV Business phone-in programme monitored…
Multiple internet subscriptions by Nigerians define unstable QoS—Expert
An expert in Nigerian internet subscribers’ behaviour and data technology specialist, Mr. Clement Ebie, has given insight on why there had been no stable leader amongst networks delivering internet services. In an interview with Business Hilights, the Israeli trained technologist…
Is NCC lacking ideas in driving broadband penetration or…?
Since the seemingly failed auctioning of 2.6 GHz spectrum for the deployment of 4G services in 2016, there are indications that the telecoms regulator may have not been its self or it is still wondering why the auctioning failed to…
Why some subscribers’ still chose to port than register new SIM—BH survey
Reasons considered by several Nigerian telecoms subscriber before choosing to port to another network than removing the Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) and registering SIM of their networks of new choice have emerged. It would be recalled that Mobile Number Portability…
Remove telecoms equipments from 41 items barred from CBN’s forex access—ALTON
To tame the observed fall in Quality of Service (QoS) amongst all the telecoms services, the Association of Licenced Telecoms of Nigeria (ALTON) has called on the Central Bank of Nigeria to delist telecoms equipments from the list of 41…
