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- 8 Sept 2008
Oceanic Bank Buys MTS FirstWireless, Prestel
MTS FirstWireless, trapped in the debris of protracted boardroom squabbles has got a breather, thanks to fresh take over bid by Oceanic Bank Plc, one of Nigeria’s leading financial…
- 7 Jun 2010
Starcomms Moves to Acquire MTS First Spectrum
MTS First Wireless, pioneer private telephone operator, has begun move to sale its spectrum license it acquired from Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to Starcomms Plc in a deal estimated at…
- 15 Dec 2008
MTS FirstWireless Re-launches February Next Year
MTS FirstWireless, one of the country’s pioneer telecom service providers is set to bounce back by late February next thanks to the rejigging of the telco with the fresh financial impetus from…
- 28 Apr 2014
Salt & Einstein, MTN Partner on Mobile Health Insurance Scheme
Salt & Einstein MTS, Mobile insurance services aggregator, MTN Nigeria and Nigerian National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), have announced a strategic partnership to launch a mobile-based…
- 13 Jan 2014
NCC Warns Starcomms Over Merger Delays, May Revoke Approvals
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said it might revoke approval for the merger of MTS, Multi-Links and Starcomms, all CDMA networks as Capcom, the investment firm trying to tie knots seems…
- 12 Nov 2012
Cash Injection in CDMA Rings Resurgence, Fears
The multi-million dollars cash injection into the Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) operations by CAPCOM, the new operator from the merger of Starcomms, Multilinks and MTS First Communications is…
- 29 Jun 2016
GSMA Launches Initiative for Rich, Interoperable Messaging Experiences
GSMA hasannounced that AIS, Axiata Group, Beeline, Bell Mobility, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Claro Brazil, Claro Colombia, Indosat Ooredoo, M1, Megafon, MTS, Optus, Personal…
- 11 Oct 2021
Eugene Juwah, Former NCC Boss Dies in Canada
Dr Eugene Juwah, former executive vice chairman and chief executive officer of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is dead. Eugene Juwah, Former, EVC, NCC Juwah, according to family sources,…
- 11 Jan 2013
NCC's Spectrum Saga Gets Messier with Fresh Cans of Worms
It is the story of the alleged frequency racketeering at Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC): for every rebuttal by the commission, fresh cans of worms are being opened. The federal government’s…
- 16 Oct 2013
CDMA Rings into Distress as Capcom Deal Stagnates
Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) segment of the Nigeria’s telecoms industry is ringing into oblivion as a cloud of uncertainty hang over the sky-high hope raised by the proposed merger of…
- 4 Dec 2012
Starcomms Seeks Shareholders Nod for Capcom’s Lifeline
Starcomms Plc is seeking its shareholders’ approval to allow the injection of the much needed capital; technology; and expertise from Capcom Limited to rejig the troubled operator. The shareholders…
- 27 Dec 2012
Starcomms Losses Hit N5.3Bn
Starcomms Plc has reported a net loss of N5.3 billion in the third quarter ended September 30, 2012, indicating a steady decline of the telecom company when compared with the N478.69 million recorded…
- 9 Jan 2013
Afreximbank, Starcomms Ink N9.7Bn Deal
Africa Export Import Bank (Afreximbank) has concluded arrangements to extend a loan facility of $62 million (N9.7 billion) to new owners of Starcomms, Capcom to facilitate the acquisition of the…
- 28 Apr 2015
Glo Unveils National Mobile Health Insurance Product
Globacom, has moved to boost access to quality health care among the Nigerian population with the unveiling of a National Mobile Health Insurance Product. Officials of the company and the National…
- 20 Apr 2014
Revealed! How Asian Vendor Helped Kill Starcomms
Starcomms Plc, the once flourishing code division multiple access (CDMA) operator, was experiencing excruciating difficulties in its operations. The company owners searched frantically for a way to…
- 2 Aug 2010
How Juwah Survived Power Play for NCC’s Top Job
Despite the organized opposition to his appointment, Dr. Eugene Ikemefuna Juwah was last week handed a rare green chance to prove he possess the aptitude to move the telecommunications industry…
- 15 Mar 2015
Dead CDMA Telephone Lines Litter Nigeria
Latest statistics from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the telecoms industry regulator, has suggested a crowded graveyard for the once active code division multiple access (CDMA)…
- 20 Mar 2015
NBC Appoints UK Firm for Common Set-Up-Box System
National Broadcasting Commission, (NBC) has appointed Inview Technologies Limited, a UK based software company for the provision of a national Common Set-Top-Box system. The appointment was followed…
- 4 Apr 2016
Worries as N30Bn Debt Threatens Telecom Sector
The telecoms sector already contending with many problems hindering quality of service; may be finally knocked down by the huge interconnect debt profile which is growing by the day, according to…
- 19 Feb 2018
Concerns as Dead Telephone Lines Litter Nigeria
Latest statistics from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the telecoms industry regulator, has suggested a crowded graveyard for the once active code division multiple access (CDMA)…
- 24 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…
- 21 Jul 2020
NCC Recalls 41.2m Unused Lines, Okays New Numbering Plans for 37 Telcos
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has withdrawn some 41, 240,448 million lines that have been left inactive or unused by telecommunications licencees across 36 states of the country over the…
- 22 Dec 2021
African Petroleum Refiners Seek Upgrade of Continent’s Refineries for Cleaner Fuels
The African Refiners and Distributors Association (ARDA) has said that the continent needs to deliver the “refineries of the future”, to be able to meet the growing energy needs of its population.…
- 12 Apr 2022
Nokia, Ericsson Halt New Business in Russia
Nokia has announced its exit from Russia, while rival Ericsson is putting its business there on hold indefinitely, throwing into doubt the country's ability to build super-fast 5G networks. The…
- 23 Jun 2022
NCC Appoints Reuben Muoka as Director of Public Affairs
The Management of the Nigerian Communications Commission has appointed Reuben Muoka, an innovative journalist and consummate public relations practitioner, as its new Director of Public Affairs…
- 8 Sept 2022
NIPR Fellowship to Muoka, Ibietan, Meritorious - Danbatta
Professor Umar Garba Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has hailed the conferment of the Fellowship of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations,…
- 1 Sept 2008
Battle for Supremacy Among CDMA Operators
The introduction of Unified Access License by Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in 2006 after the expiration of exclusivity right given to Global System for Mobile communication (GSM)…
- 11 Sept 2022
NITRA Hails Muoka, Ibietan on NIPR Fellowship
The National body of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Journalists under the aegis of the Nigeria Information Technology Reporters Association (NITRA) in Lagos, has applauded the stride…
- 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.…
- 21 Jun 2010
No Dormant Operator in Telecom Industry—NCC
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said that there are no dormant operators in the country’s telecommunications sector especially in the voice space, Nigeria CommunicationsWeek can…