Telecommunication

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), last week, restated its position to sanitise the Value Added Service (VAS) segment of the telecoms sector, and insisted it would not hesitate to sanction erring VAS operators that were still involved in pushing out unsolicited messages to subscribers. NCC made its position known during the first Bi-Annual Nigeria Valued Added Services Stakeholder’s Forum, which held in Lagos, and organised by NCC. Some major consumers’ concerns in respect to VAS services include spam messages, fraudulent bank alerts, forceful subscriptions, among others, which NCC said negates the right of the telecoms consumers. Aside unsolicited messages, NCC also made it clear that it has not shifted grounds on embargo placed on ‘auto-renewal’, which NCC said was force

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has accused the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) of aiding telecommunications giant, MTN Nigeria to disobey extant Nigerian laws and international Labour laws and convention which the country signed since 1960. Labour is also accusing MTN Nigeria of subjecting Nigerian Workers to untold harsh and unfriendly Labour practices such as casualisation, disallowing unionization among. Labour is also accusing MTN Nigeria of being one of the biggest threats to the nation’s security, putting the lives of Nigerian security agents at risk and funding their global operation with funds made from Nigeria, while subjecting Nigerian workers to untold hardship. In a letter to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and signed by Comrade Ayuba Wabb

The growth profile of licensed Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the country has continued to plummet.Statistics obtained by The Guardian from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) confirmed this. The statistics revealed that out of the 219,117 connections, only about 126, 378 users are active on the Internet through the ISPs as at first quarter 2018. These connected lines were made possible by the efforts of 23 ISPs, including Spectranet, IS Internet Solutions, VDT, Cobranet, e-Stream, Cyberspace, MainOne Cables, Juniper Solutions, Backbone Connectivity, Hyperia, ipNX, Zeta-Web Nigeria, Ekovolt Telco Nigeria, Layer 3 Ltd, NetAccess Communications Nigeria, among others. The implication of this is that the Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), including MTN, Globacom, Airtel and ...

The Nigerian Communications Commission says it is conducting another round of due diligence on the preferred bidder for 9Mobile, Teleology Holdings Limited. The due diligence will determine whether the bid winner has the technical capacity as well as the financial resources to successfully run the beleaguered telecommunications company. Answering a question from journalists on the lingering takeover of the telecommunications company in Abuja on Wednesday, the Executive Vice Chairman, NCC, Prof Umar Danbatta, said the commission would soon report to its board on the result of the due diligence. He added that the preferred bidder must fulfil all necessary conditions before it would be allowed to take over the company formally known as Etisalat. Danbatta said, “There are issues bu

The Association of Telecommunication Companies of Nigeria has launched a book celebrating some of the players associated with the innovation and creativity in the Nigerian telecommunication and ICT industry. Speaking during the unveiling of the book profiling 100 leading personalities in the industry, the President of ATCON, Mr. Olusola Teniola, said that the book chronicled those whose creativity had attracted both local and international attention to the country’s telecom and ICT industry. He said, “We are happy as an association that the entire ecosystem of telecom and the ICT in Nigeria has grown over the years. ATCON has been in the forefront, protecting exiting investments in the telecom and the ICT sector and attracting further investment into the sector while also advocating