30 results
- 24 Nov 2008
Direct On PC wins ‘Best ISP’ Award
Internet Service Provider, Direct On PC has won for the sixty time ‘Best Internet Service Provider’ award at this year’s Nigeria Information Technology and Telecoms Award (Nitta…
- 30 Mar 2009
Direct On PC Partners O3b Networks on low latency Bandwidth
Internet Service Provider, Direct On PC has signed multi-Dollar contract with O3b Networks Limited, the developer of a new fibre quality, satellite-based, global Internet backbone infrastructure for…
- 8 Sept 2010
Helios Towers, DOPC Pen Co-Location Deal
Helios Towers has signed a Co-location agreement with Direct On PC (DOPC) for her roll out of 200 sites under Wimax network expansion plan in 2010/2011. DOPC is a Nigerian Communication Commission…
- 1 Mar 2010
Garg Becomes DOPC Managing Director
Mr. Anurag Garg, has been appointed managing director of Direct On PC, an internet service provider. Until his recent appointment, Garg was the chief operating officer of the company, a position he…
- 30 Nov 2009
DoPC wins ‘Best Internet Company ’ Award
Internet service provider, Direct On PC has won the award of ‘Best Internet Company of the year’ award at Nigeria Information Technology and Telecom Award (Nitta 2009) held recently. This…
- 12 Mar 2012
2.5GHZ Licensing’ll Encourage More Broadband Operators –Garg
2.5GHZ Licensing’ll Encourage More Broadband Operators –Garg Anurag Garg is managing director of Direct On PC, a leading Internet Service Provider in the Nigeria. Garg joined DOPC eight years ago…
- 30 Mar 2014
Cost Prohibitive for Broadband Revolution – Garg
Anurag Garg is managing director of Direct On PC, a leading Internet Service Provider in the Nigeria. Garg joined DOPC eight years ago from Zenith Computer Limited, India and he has vast knowledge of…
- 26 Feb 2014
DOPC Thrills Enterprise Customers with High Speed Connectivity
A little over 8 months after it transferred the retail aspect of its business to Swift Networks, Direct On PC (DOPC) announced at the week end that it has upgraded the bandwidth speed for all its…
- 22 Jan 2014
BRIC Countries Driving Digital PC, Game Software Revenue
A new digital PC and Mac gaming software and services forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC) concludes that PC and Mac gamer spending and direct banner/video ad outlays across all digital…
- 12 Jun 2013
Swift Networks Acquires 4G Business of DoPC, Mulls LTE Tech
After 18 months painstaking discussions, Swift Networks Limited, a leading provider of wireless and fibre-based broadband services to businesses and residential users on Wednesday announced the…
- 25 Apr 2016
Stakeholders Worry over Roadblocks to Broadband Penetration
Nigerians will have to wait a little longer for affordable high-speed internet service otherwise known as broadband internet because there are still many roadblocks, people who should know told…
- 30 Aug 2013
Glut Hits Undersea Cables, Capacity Wastes
Some 7 terabyte per second bandwidth by the four undersea cables’ infrastructure are unutilized; a classical case of starving in the midst of plent y , Nigeria CommuncationsWeek can now reveal.…
- 18 Apr 2017
Stakeholders Frown at Connectivity Issues
Information and Communications Technology experts in the country have frowned at poor connectivity services been delivered at public organizations resulting in loss of working hours and poor service…
- 26 Apr 2020
Connectivity Headaches in Lockdown
With millions of people around the world impacted by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, national lockdowns have affected how businesses operate, with major disruptions in productivity and supply…
- 28 Aug 2014
Tablets Competition With PCs Waning, Windows 9 Beckons
Worldwide personal computer (PC) shipments are expected to fall by -3.7% in 2014, an improvement from the previous forecast of -6%, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide…
- 6 Oct 2008
Nigeria, Others Spend $400m on Local Traffic Annually—Rudman
Mohammed Rudman, managing director, Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria is a multitalented IT expert who has contributed immensely to the development of the industry in Nigeria. He has worked with…
- 4 Apr 2015
Windows XP Clings to No. 2 Spot as Windows 10 Gets Closer
Windows XP continues its descent among desktop operating systems, though it's far from dead and buried. Looking at the overall Web traffic for desktop operating systems across the globe, Net…
- 2 Mar 2013
STM-1 Demand Rises by 500%
The demand for Synchronous Transport Module level-1 (STM-1) by telcos, internet service providers, and banks among others is up by 500 per cent over the past three years driven by the various…
- 10 Mar 2013
Why and How Broadband Internet is Expensive
Nigerians will have to wait a little longer for affordable high-speed internet service otherwise known as broadband internet because there are still many roadblocks, people who should know have said.…
- 2 Nov 2014
ISPs Cry Foul over $2,000 Tower Rental Cost
Internet Services Providers (ISPs) have lamented over high cost of tower rental in the country and said that it frustrates their effort towards expanding services because it drains their revenue. The…
- 10 Nov 2009
Harris Stratex Unveils Next Generation Communication Infrastructure
Global wireless commu-nication solutions provider, Harris Stratex Networks, has unveiled a 4G/LTE/Wimax Evolution at a seminar for engineers in Lagos. The event, which was targeted at the existing…
- 19 May 2013
Undersea Cables Crash Cost of Satellite Bandwidth by 50%
Avalanche of bandwidth from several undersea cables infrastructure to the country’s shores have crashed the cost of the commodity supplied through satellite technology by 50%, Nigeria…
- 26 Jan 2015
NITEL Loses $6m to SAT-3 Shut Down
Nigeria Telecommunications Limited (NITEL), part owners of South Atlantic 3/West Africa Submarine Cable (SAT-3), has lost some $6million in the last 18 months due to a cut at the Nigerian end…
- 30 Mar 2015
ISPAN Backs Open Access Model to Broadband Revolution
Internet Service Providers of Nigeria (ISPAN) has thrown its weight behind Open Access Model in effort to increase broadband penetration in the country. The Open Access Model, allows for inclusive,…
- 28 Aug 2013
500 Volunteers to Test-Drive SWIFT’s new LTE Network
SWIFT Networks , Nigeria’s leading provider of high speed broadband internet and data services to enterprise and consumer customers has announced that 500 volunteers will test-drive its brand new…
- 16 Nov 2014
Undersea Cable Operators Make $1,650 Profit on Bandwidth
Major undersea cable companies in the country make as much as $1,650 profit on each Gigabyte of internet sold to telcos, internet service providers, banks, among others, suggesting that business is…
- 22 Mar 2010
Developing Local Content is a Major Task - Anurag
Anurag Garg is managing director of Direct OnPC, a leading Internet Service Provider in the country. Garg joined DOPC six years ago from Zenith Computers Limited, India; he has vast knowledge of the…
- 23 Jan 2015
Microsoft Windows 10 Comes With Free Upgrade, Group Computing
Microsoft Corporation on has launched a new generation of Windows, with a wide range of experiences designed to usher in a new era of more personal computing, as well as two new devices designed to…
- 20 Oct 2008
Atcon Gears Up for ComBIT 2008 Expo
Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (Atcon) has geared up to host the world as ComBIT 2008 Expo – an annual international information and communications technology exhibition…
- 30 Jun 2013
Revealed! Why ISPs are Dying
Internet Service Providers Association of Nigeria (Ispan) has attributed the death of traditional internet service providers (ISPs) in the country to wrong business model, Nigeria…