Foremost technology company Ericsson, has released a prediction that a whooping of 3.5 billion 5G subscriptions and 60 per cent global 5G population would emerge by 2026. Nigeria is expected to join other nations that have deployed 5G in their telecomsindustry space by January 2022 . President/CEO Ericsson, Borje Ekholm, in a statement said that […]
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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC),says it has raked a total of N294.312billion as proceeds from its regulatory mandates, which includes spectrum fees and has remitted same to the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) of the Federal Government The commission disclosed it remitted a total of N294.312billion being proceeds from spectrum fees to the CRF account, as […]
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A clarion has been made to Telecom services consumers in the country to ensure they register with the National Identification Management Commission, (NIMC) at various enrolment centers across the counrty, to get their National Identification Numbers as the October 31 deadline date set by the commission would be made to stand At the Telecom Consumer […]
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The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ibrahim Pantami has disclosed that there were about 16,000 reported outages by mobile network operators in the country from January 2021 to July 2021. The outages, according to him, were due to fibre cuts, access denial and theft, leading to service disruption in the affected areas. […]
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With the successful unveiling of the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy (NDEPS) recently at the 11th edition of the eNigeria conference and exhibition 2019 by President Muhammadu Buhari, ICT stakeholders in Nigeria would again gather for another epoch making event, as the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), a unit of the Ministry of […]
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The Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami says the 5G network will be deployed in Nigeria in January 2022, stating that the network will go a long way to aid surveillance against vandalisation of public assets. Pantami, disclosed this at a Town Hall Meeting, in Maiduguri, Borno State capital, while addressing stakeholders on […]
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The Federal Government has has given its express approval to apex regulatoty authority of the telecommunication sector in the country, to commence the process of deploying the use of the Fifth Generation Network , otherwise called 5G network in Nigeria. The Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami) announced the […]
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The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ibrahim Pantami, has again tasked the management and staff of the Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT) on a new Key Performance Indicators (KPI), capable of transforming the agency into an opportunity-driven entity, which will enhance its capacity to take risks in the fast-growing Nigerian ICT sector. […]
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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has approved 98 tariff plans for the four leading Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) in the country, hn the current year. The tariff plans represent various service platforms chosen by GSM users on the networks of their operators for voice and data services with specific charges attracted to each plan. It […]
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A proposed fine of N200,000 is be slammed on any mobile communications services provider which fails to verify and validate biometric, National Identity Number and other personal information of each subscriber to its services, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has said. A proposed draft regulation on registration of telephone subscribers 2020 recently published on NCC’s […]
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The Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, has stressed the need for digital training of women to uplift their socio-economic standards and bridge the gender gap among professionals in the country. The telecom industry chief, who made this remark recently in Lagos at the maiden edition of the […]
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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), projected revenue from the take-off the proposed 5G spectrum network may amount to a whooping N500 billion naira from the auction, when the bidding takes off later this year. This princely sum would also makes the NCC one of the biggest revenue earning agency of the Federal Government against the […]
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