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- 11 May 2009
Mobitel Returns 5 Years after Joseph’s Death
A $5million contract with VocaTel of Israel is expected to breathe life into Mobitel Nigeria limited, one of Nigeria’s first private providers of telecommunications services which slipped into…
- 21 Sept 2009
Alvarion Gets Mobitel’s Nationwide Service Rollout Contract
Alvarion, WiMax and wireless broadband solutions provider has announced that it has been chosen by Mobitel to provide 802.16e WiMax services for under-served areas throughout Nigeria. Using…
- 8 Jun 2009
Mobitel Secures WiMax Infrastructure
Mobitel has contracted Alvarion to deploy a WiMax network in under-served areas throughout the country. Using Alvarion’s BreezeMAX solution in the 2.0 GHz, 2.2 GHz and 2.3 GHz frequency bands,…
- 22 Mar 2010
2.3GHz: Dark Spots, Intrigues Threaten Licenses
Air of solemnity pervaded the telecom industry last weekend as stakeholders wait with cautious optimism government’s reaction to the landmark judgment which ordered the Nigerian Communications…
- 5 Mar 2013
2.3Ghz Auction Rings Debate
The 2.3GHz frequency band evokes so much emotion each time it is mentioned and it did live up to its controversial nature as divergent views greeted the planned licensing of the remaining slot…
- 27 May 2009
NCC Commences New Licensing Round for 2.3Ghz Frequency
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has begun a new process for the sale of the 2.3GHz Frequency spectrum band following the cancellation of the earlier sale enmeshed in controversies, Nigeria…
- 22 Sept 2008
Immortalize Charles Alaba Joseph Now
Some days just don’t go as planned. It was requiem to that dark day of September 15, 2005, when like a scene from the mafia films, light went out of one of the brightest Nigerians. The jigsaw…
- 29 Jun 2010
2.3 GHz, Nitel/Mtel Muddles Killing Telecom
The fast paced growth that greeted the initial telecom revolution in Nigeria is slowing down and it is disheartening. Like everything Nigeria, the country is allowing opportunities that come on a…
- 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.…
- 11 Feb 2014
Zinox Withdraws from 2.3GHz Spectrum Auction
Zinox Telecom, arm of Zinox Group, the integrated Information and Communications company, has withdrawn from the 2.3GHz spectrum auction, preferring to focus on its core end to service…
- 19 Feb 2014
Bitflux Wins 2.3 GHz Spectrum Auction with $23.1m
Bitflux Communications Limited has emerged winner of the 2.3 GHz spectrum with a bid of $23.25 million to beat Globacom, National carrier. NCC had, in a public notice, made available on its official…
- 24 Mar 2014
NSN Restrategises Nigeria Operations, Opens New Office
Nokia Solutions and Networks has announced the inauguration of a new office in Lagos, the commercial hub of West Africa, to expand its operations in the country. The company has also renovated its…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 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…
- 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…
- 27 Feb 2018
NCC Sanctions Telcos, Bars 750,000 Numbers for Call Masking, Others
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has sanctioned three companies and barred 750,000 numbers found to be connected to call masking. Call masking is a technique used to hide numbers when…
- 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…
- 15 Jun 2018
NCC Withdraws 36.6m Telephone Lines from Telcos
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has withdrawn 36.6 million telephone lines from telecommunications operators. According to a document made available on the NCC website, the directive…
- 23 Jun 2008
The Internet and African IT Journalism
A while back, I attended the first ever IT Journalism Conference in Nigeria in 2003. I was one of the speakers (sandwiched between Adrian Woods (then CEO, MTN Nigeria) and late Dr Charles Alaba…
- 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…
- 5 May 2009
2.3 License: Use-it or Loose it Clause Scares Bidders
Only a handful of the 40 applicants for the four slots of 20 MHz each in the 2.3 GHz frequency band to be issued by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) will go ahead with the bidding process…
- 15 Jun 2009
Botched 2.3GHz Spectrum: Nigeria Loses $2Bn Investment, Internet Revolution
Nigeria may lose some $2billion investment in its telecom infrastructure and chance to make broadband affordable and enhanced in the country unless the crisis generated by the recent botched…
- 21 Dec 2009
How Telecom Fared in the Out Going Year
Nigeria telecommunications sector in the out going year was felt with mixed given. The sector which has been adjudged the fastest growing in Africa, witnessed low level of activities compared to…
- 31 Aug 2009
2.3GHz: Companies Unfazed, Eye Licenses
The announcement of fresh licensing for spectrum in the 2.3GHz frequency band after the previous process was declared void, has conjured an array of feelings but more applicants unfazed by diatribes…
- 24 May 2010
World Cup Stars, Mobile Phone Coys in 1GOAL Campaign
Education for All, the football world and FIFA-backed legacy project for the 2010 World Cup, has launched the world’s biggest ever mobile phone campaign. Mobile companies from…
- 2 Nov 2009
Broadband Missing in FG’s $2Bn Stimulus Package
When do you think the Nigerian economy will improve? The answers differ; to some the economy is already on the mend but others think it will take much longer. In all, there is no concrete sign to…
- 26 Apr 2010
Nigeria, UK Telecommunications Summit 2010 Holds in May
Perceptions of investors have found that “Africa is a Goldmine as far as telecom investments are concerned” for example Nigeria’s Information and Communications Technology sector is…