Twenty-Four years after a seismic development in the telecommunications industry, the regulator said on Monday that industry stakeholders can have a better experience only if they can adjust their understanding of modern telecom regulation whose products they were only too happy to put in the public domain.  At the virtual launch of the NCC Public Performance […]

On a day that the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, called a roundtable on broadband with the various industry stakeholders, I couldn’t be there but was connected virtually through the same technology that was enjoying appreciable focus and some kind of understandable admiration because of its near infinite possibilities.  I had to demonstrate that the future of […]

In his speech to mark the 65th Independence Anniversary of our great nation, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu said: “We have experienced a significant surge in growth across every sector of our national life since Independence – in healthcare, infrastructure, financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, information technology, aviation and defence, among others.” Let me pick out telecommunications and […]

Having met all the regulatory demands after shelling out $2bn for the purchase of Multichoice, Canal+, last week, made some strategic appointments by way of activating a mandatory takeover of the African pay-TV giant. The field of play is about to change or has it dramatically changed already? David Mignot will serve as Chief Executive Officer, […]

I have had the good fortune of working with Ernest Ndukwe, an engineer, at a very significant moment in my life when history was also being made for our dear nation, Nigeria. The country had been so starved of telecom development that it was assumed a miracle for any such thing to happen in our clime. […]