Apparently responding to the public outcry over poor services, the Nigerian Communications Commission [NCC] will introduce sanctions against telecommunications companies operating in the country if they continuously fail to improve their service quality. Prof Umar Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman of NCC told journalists in a media interaction that the commission was moving regulatory actions to […]
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Etisalat Nigeria’s estimated 23million subscribers can now heave a sigh of relief as the anxiety over its possible takeover by 13 creditor banks has now been laid to rest with its parent company, Etisalat Abu Dhabi, showing stronger willingness to inject fresh funds to recapitalise its subsidiary. This was part of the outcomes of a […]
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President and Managing Director, Ericsson Nigeria, Rutger Reman, has advised stakeholders in the information communications (ICT) space in Nigeria to close ranks and ensure the success of mobile money in the country. He said the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the Communications Technology Ministry, deposit money banks (DMBs), the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and other […]
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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has advised subscribers to stop unsolicited and most often, provocative text messages by sending “STOP” to “2442”. It said this was part of its ongoing campaign to enlighten consumers on their rights to better services. Declaring 2017 as the year of Nigerian Telecom Consumer, its Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) Prof. […]
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Nigeria is losing over N127bn yearly to cases of Internet frauds across all sectors of the economy, the Minister of Communications, Mr. Adebayo Shittu, has said. This, stated in a document he made available to our correspondent on Friday, adding that majority of the frauds were perpetrated on foreign domain names and had become popular […]
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Active telecommunication service users in Nigeria decreased from 155.1 million in January to 154. 1 million in February, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) made this known. The NCC noted a decrease of 993,063 in the number of telecoms users across the country in January. “Active users of telecommunications services in the country increased to 154,120,484 in […]
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The Federal Government is to declare telecommunications facilities across the country as critical national infrastructure. The Minister of Communications, Mr. Adebayo Shittu, disclosed this at a reception and presentation of the Board of Commissioners of the Nigerian Communications Commission in Abuja on Tuesday night. Shittu also stated that the telecommunications sector had attracted $60bn investment […]
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Etisalat Nigeria was on Friday off the hook of been taken over by three of the most prestigious Banks in the nation as a meeting convened by the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Nigerian Communications Commission gave a quick resolution to the loan crisis facing the mobile network operator. The NCC said on Sunday that […]
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Nigeria’s financial and telecoms regulator said it agreed on Friday with local banks to end the prospect of receivership for mobile operator Etisalat Nigeria, which has missed a payment on a $1.2 billion loan. A banking source told Reuters on Wednesday that the Nigerian affiliate of Abu Dhabi-listed telecoms company Etisalat had given notice to […]
Read More The Nigeria Communication Commission on Thursday said the Commission and Central Bank of Nigeria had moved to intervene in the Etisalat loan issue. The Director of Public Affairs of NCC, Mr Tony Ojobo, in a statement issued in Abuja, said, “After a meeting on Thursday afternoon in Abuja between the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, […]
Read More The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has read the riot act to Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) over the poor quality of service recorded on their networks, saying the downward trend cannot be allowed to continue. A source privy to the development revealed that the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Prof Umar Danbatta handed down the warning […]
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Telecommunication company, MTN, has dismissed the claim that it offered bribe for the reduction of the N1.04 trillion fine slammed on it by the Nigerian Communications Commission. The NCC had slammed the N1.04 trillion fine on MTN in October 2015 after the operator failed to disconnect about 5.1 million subscribers it registered improperly on its […]
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