Ghanaian Minister advocates co-sharing of broadband infrastructure
The Ghanaian Minister of Communications, Mrs Ursula Owusu Ekuful, on Monday, intensified calls across boards for broadband and telecom companies to build up a broadband infrastructure code to allow for the co-sharing of broadband infrastructure. According to her, “Co-sharing infrastructure…
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…
Broadband: ALTON seeks states’ cooperation in delivery of last mile infrastructure
The Association of Licenced Telecoms Companies of Nigeria (ALTON), has joined the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in calling on state governments’ to cooperate with several understandings lined up by the regulator in achieving seamless delivery of broadband infrastructure nationwide. In…
Angola begins installation of first direct subsea link between Africa, S’America
Angola is set to overtake Nigeria in growing the advantage of subsea data cable from abroad as it flagged off on Wednesday, the South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) at an official launch in Sangano. Before now, over five subsea cables…
Q1 subscribers: Nigeria adds only 3m as India hits 43m, China rises to 24m in telecoms
Latest Ericsson Mobility Report for June edition, presented in Lagos recently has shown that whereas the Nigeria crawled to three million subscribers, India added 43 million; China 24 million; Indonesia 10 million and Pakistan five million. The Quarter one (Q1)…
