MTN Nigeria, last week dismissed any speculation that its sponsorship of 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa was for profit. The company said the reason behind its dolling multi million dollars to light up the world event was to articulate the can do spirit of Africa before the visiting countries, thereby justifying its brand management philosophy of selling Africa to the wider world.

Considering the plenty harvests of good and bad, progress and retrogression in the telecom sector in 2009, one can only ascribe the Man of the year award bestowed on the Chairman of Globacom Limited, Dr. Mike Adenuga Jr, by the Silverbird group, to the plus of a telecom sector development.

THE Executive Vice Chairman, EVC of Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC on behalf of the commission has joined other legions of Nigerians who mourn, the demise of former First Lady of Nigeria, Mrs Mariam Babangida, to commiserate with the Babangidas over the passing away of the Better Life for Rural Women crusader.

A campaign for change has to be sustained for it to permeate existing stereotypes and idiosyncrasies, especially when certain habits have been institutionalized over several years. In view of this, the intention of my Ministry is to be on point and stay on the message till we achieve the desired outcomes.

THE Nigerian Communi cations Commission last week in Abuja issued new set of Interconnect rates for the telecom industry, to take effect from Wednesday, December 31, 2009.

By Prince Osuagwu WITH unfolding events in recent time, it could not have been an accident that the Nigerian telecommunications market zoomed past that of South Africa, which has dominated the lead for decades. Although, easily dubbed the dumping ground of unwanted foreign technologies, what no one would deny the market is its liberal stature […]

By Nnamdi Ojiego Subscribers of different telecom networks in the country are crying foul over the collapse of network in the face of a growing promotional activities by almost all the operators. The subscribers say, that for the operators to keep dishing out one form of promo after another even when they know that their […]

By Nnamdi Ojiego IT is believed that every  good innovations come with its attendant problems or shortcomings. This is true of electronic gadgets like cameras, mobile phones, etc. One of the major problems experienced in the use of hand-sets is battery failure. It is particularly so in Nigeria where electricity supply is erratic. This sorry […]

With the introduction of Broad Access, Glo has brought fixed line telephony back to glory”, he said.
What these statements meant was that the government knew that a lot of relief would come the way of Nigerians if the traditional fixed line telephony resurfaces. The government also knew all the while that a large chunk of the economy was going down the drain since the absence of fixed line telephony in Nigeria.

The award, according to the company has added to the plethora of honours it had received since it commenced operations about 9 years ago.The Company in a release signed by its MD/CEO said the Award will serve as an impetus to remain the managed services company of choice more so at a time when most operators are out sourcing their passive infrastructure maintenance to independent operators to boost services and reduce cost.

WITH a fresh injectionof about $350Million equity financing from a group of investors recently, Helios Towers, a Nigerian co-location, tower outsourcing and management company, may be on its way to unifying African telecom operations, replicating the type of infrastructure sharing services rendered in Nigeria to other African countries.

PAN-African NGO for the development of telecom in Africa, Africa Telecom Development Initiative, ATDI, has commended the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC for its revolutionary advocacy for the protection of telecom consumers in the country through the monthly telecom consumer parliament .

THE epileptic electricity supply in the country and its accompanying erratic voltage is not friendly with mobile phones. At least it has resulted in the damage of countless mobile phones, chargers, among other appliances and this is getting industry practitioners on their toes.

Vice President Goodluck Jonathan was upbeat with the renewed sale of Nitel when some journalists approached him sometime early this year in Manhattan, New York, at an Investors’ Forum organised by BNP Paribas Consortium, the transaction advisers in NITEL privatisation, at the instance of the National Council on Privatisation.

By Emmanuel Elebeke In a move to offer quality customer experience to its teaming Nigeria subscribers, MTN Nigeria has unveiled  MyCustomer Charter, a new customer care principle for its customer service representatives aimed at achieving the best- in-class customer experience on the network. Unveiling the new principle at a banquet organized for the company’s customers […]