The Senate yesterday rejected a five-page report on the state of the Global System of Mobile Communications (GSM) because the National Assembly Joint Committee did not recommend adequate punishments to service providers and the regulating Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) for
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) said investments in the Telecommunications sector rose from $50 million in 2001 (N5.85 billion) to more than $11.5 billion (N1.35 trillion) in 2008, Mr Ernest Ndukwe, the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, said this yesterday
As Nigerians continue to grapple with poor quality of service in the nations telecoms industry, the Nigerian Communications Commission, (NCC) has restated its earlier call for more base stations to be procured by telecoms operators in the country to address
For not recommending any form of sanction for service providers of the Global System of Mobil Communications (GSM) and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), in spite of public outcry, the Senate yesterday threw back the report of its joint Committee,
In a bid to escape the hammer of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC for poor quality of service on its network, Celtel Nigeria has concluded plans to pay billions of naira as compensation to subscribers on its network as directed
In its commitment to the United Nation's Millennium Developing Goals of halving the number of people living in poverty by 2015, the Imo State Government has trained 350 youths in various computer programmes.
Kano State government has approved N270 million for the renovation of the Ado Bayero House in order to actualize the state's policy on Information and Communication Technology.
A Chinese national at an intellectual gathering once unwittingly described Nigerians as a bunch of friendly people who love foreigners and all things foreign. Though he was expressing his opinion, he hit the nail on the head because over time
Nigeria's leading telecommunications company, MTN and Multichoice Nigeria recently took telecommunications partnerships to new heights with the launch of Mobile Television on the MTN network. With the launch, MTN becomes the first cellular network to offer its subscribers an opportunity
Outpourings of exploitation of the general public by GSM telecommunication providers and the failure of the National Communication Commission (NCC) to keep them in check overflowed as the Senate yesterday turned down a report by its joint Committees on the
The director of information and communication in the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Mr. Benjamin Dikki, has revealed that the postal policy and new postal legislation are near completion after both documents were subjected to extensive stakeholder sensitisation.
Global Touch Ltd, a Nigerian company licensed by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to offer Global Mobile Personal communication by satellite, has commenced the construction of its gateway earth station in Kaduna.
Kano State Government has fashioned out an Information and Communication Technology policy and is collaborating with foreign experts to actualize its plans on ICT.