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- 9 Mar 2016
Intercellular Nigeria Chooses Huawei for Rapid Network Transformation to LTE
On the side of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Spain, Huawei held a signing ceremony with Intercellular Nigeria Limited a foremost and indigenous telecommunications company in Nigeria. At the…
- 12 Mar 2021
MTN Nigeria Acquires Additional 10MHz Spectrum from Intercellular
MTN Nigeria has acquired additional 10MHz spectrum in the 800MHz band from Intercellular Nigeria Limited. Karl Toriola, Chief Executive Officer, MTN Nigeria Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC),…
- 13 Nov 2008
Banks Inject Funds to Jump-start Intercellular
Intercellular Nigeria Limited has got a lifeline facility brokered by a consortium of banks including UBA Plc, Nigeria’s financial powerhouse to jump-start operations of the telecom company.…
- 19 Feb 2021
Telcos Get 383m New Numbers from NCC
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has provided 382.94 million new telephone numbers for the use of telecommunications operators, according to the NCC’s Q1 2021 National Numbering Plan released…
- 22 Sept 2008
$550m Deal: NCC Threatens Sudatel over Intercellular
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is to wield the big stick on Sudatel, telecommunications and Internet service provider in Sudan, which bought 70 per cent of Intercellular Nigeria Limited for…
- 17 Nov 2008
Sudatel Injects N3.6Bn in Intercellular, Set for Re-launch
Sudatel, telecommunications and internet service provider in Sudan and new owners of Intercellular Nigeria Limited has injected $32 million (about N3.6Billion) into the local telco to rejig its…
- 2 Mar 2016
Intercellular Plans Massive Comeback with Huawei LTE Network
Intercellular Nigeria has selected Huawei for a joint LTE 4G transformation of the CDMA network which will see Huawei deploy an 800M LTE network to meet the strategic and service demands of…
- 24 May 2012
Intercellular Set for Relaunch, Lari Com Takes Charge
Intercellular Nigeria, one of the leading code divisions multiple access (CDMA), telecom operators in the country is set for a rebound in the market following a new management takeover, Nigeria…
- 14 Nov 2019
Airtel Nigeria Eyes $70m Spectrum for Better LTE Services
The proposed acquisition of additional 10 MHz spectrum in the 900 MHZ band in Nigeria for a consideration of $70 million has been announced by Airtel Africa Plc, a leading pan-African provider of…
- 18 May 2015
Intercellular Plans Comeback as Telto Group Acquires Stake
Telto Group, a Middle East investment conglomerate has secured 70 percent stake in Intercellular, the foremost Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) operator in the country and hope to positively turn…
- 30 Jun 2014
Fixed Telephones Ring Distress as Numbers Plummet
Nigerian Communications Commissions (NCC) at the weekend released her latest data showing that fixed telephone operators lost more than 56 per cent of their active lines in the past one year.…
- 9 Mar 2020
Airtel Buys Intercellular Spectrum for $94m
Airtel Africa Plc said it has completed the spectrum acquisition for a sum of $94m after obtaining approval from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). The telecommunications company said in a…
- 20 Nov 2012
Etisalat Petitions NCC on Ban on Promos, Lotteries
Etisalat Nigeria said it ought to be exempted from the blanket ban on promos and lotteries run by telecom operators because her network has no capacity problem or network congestions. Steve Evans,…
- 22 Apr 2014
15 Telecom Operators Face Collapse as Subscribers Shrink
The massive growth recorded in the Nigerian telecommunications space since the liberalisation of the industry which started with the return to democratic rule has started to slow down as the fate of…
- 12 Nov 2012
QoS: NCC Bans Promos, Lotteries by Telcos
Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC), last night barred telcos in the country from further promoting ongoing or planned promotional sales campaigns, in effort to address the worsening quality of…
- 16 Dec 2013
FG Barks, Vows to Sanction Telcos over Poor QoS
The federal government is to prosecute telecommunications operators, found to be fleecing subscribers through poor service delivery just as the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has given the…
- 23 Feb 2017
A Call to Revamp CDMA Operations
Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), a second generation telecommunications standard pioneered by chip maker Qualcomm, uses spread spectrum techniques and is globally acknowledged as the better…
- 8 Feb 2010
Funds, GSM Killing CDMA Operators Softly
A number of Code Division Multiple Access operators (CDMA) offering fixed and mobile services have seen bad times and are no longer operating optimally, Nigeria CommunicationsWeek can now reveal.…
- 6 Feb 2016
The Way Forward for CDMA in Nigeria
Akin wove his way through the bustling Lagos traffic and finally arrived at the client’s office for the scheduled debrief session just 10 minutes ahead of time. He hoped to use the few spare minutes…
- 23 Apr 2018
NCC Withdraws 41m Starcomms, Zoom Mobile, Others Numbers
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has withdrawn 41,095,448 telephone numbers assigned largely to Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) operators, effectively sealing the blighted fate of CDMA…
- 8 Sept 2010
CDMA Operators and Strategies for Survival
The granting of United Access License by Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) in 2006 after the expiration of exclusivity right given to Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) operators was…
- 23 Jul 2017
Data Floor Plan: ALTON Cries Out “ISPs Selling Below Cost”
Association of Licensed Telecommunication Companies of Nigeria (ALTON) has called on the National Assembly to urgently review the position on the telecommunications Data Floor Plan. To save the…