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ONE needs to state that your journal, ITWorld INTERNATIONAL, is doing a fantastic job in the journalism of the ICT sector in Africa, especially Nigeria. You and your crew will need to do your best to sustain and even surpass this enviable standard which you have set for yourselves. I wish you well. . -Engr. Ernest Ndukwe, EVC, NCC, Nigeria |
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Africa’s largest GSM market stuns operators 5 years after
YOU need not attend the Lagos Business School to obtain statistics on the impact of mobile telephony on Nigeria’s economy. All you probably need do is to stand at a busy Lagos street corner for 10 minutes and count either the number of commuters and pedestrians both making or receiving calls and those engaged in retailing recharge cards. For five years since the advent of the global system for mobile communications (GSM) in Nigeria, most businesses in Africa’s most populous nation runs on mobile phones.
Nigeria is a good example for those looking for a case study on the success story of GSM on any country’s economy. From less than one million lines (both fixed and mobile) in 1999, the country now counts 25 million lines only five years after the coming of GSM in 2001. |
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Reginald Mengi: Africa's Own Ted TurnerTHERE is something about Ted Turner, the founder of Cable News Network (CNN....More |
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NCC threatens to slash SMS cost
Sending a text message (an SMS) is concluded within seconds; the NCC does not think this should cost...detals |
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Special Section
Rainbownet, communicating
with colours and people Survival in the Nigerian telecoms sector now favours only outfits well fortified to play in the league, like Enugu-based Rainbownet. ROMMY IMAH reports... more |
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Nigeria’s south-west region (the O’odua states) sees a new dawn in telecoms; it is O’Net or the “Purple O”. O’Net’s MD/CEO Madhavarao Kesavan tells ENYI MOSES-NWAGWU, CHUKWUEMEKA OKORO and OLUWATOYIN OGUNSONA all about the new start, in this encounter in his company’s Cocoa House Plaza corporate headquarters in Ibadan....more |
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Bourdex takes CDMA service to
new heights in southern Nigeria Frontline PTO Bourdex Telecoms is re-tooling for fresh challenges in the sector. Recently, at the company’s Aba, Abia State headquarters, its executive chairman Chief David Ogba Onuoha told ROMMY IMAH what this is all about and answered some pertinent questions. Excerpts...More |
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BCN as trailblazer in private
telecom backbone network IT was a new dawn for Nigeria’s telecoms sector in Abuja early in August when a private concern rolled out the first phase of a national transmission network. more |
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Rumpus in broadcasting sector
as Nigeria levels playing field After many years of prevarication, Abuja has broken a yoke of exclusivity in Nigeria’s DTH pay-TV business amidst mixed reactions from stakeholders, more |
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Global IT View by Devine Kofiloto
Innovation vs. competition in
wireless infrastructure market THE wireless infrastructure market has not been immune from the mergers and consolidation we’ve seen among network operators. As pricing pressures continue to negatively impact their ..More |
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Africa loses $15.5bn in global software piracy shock: DESPITE efforts to raise awareness on intellectual property rights and the pitfalls of using computer software illegally , software piracy drained whopping US$33 billion...More |
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Focus
Huawei, Ericsson, Alcatel text-run 3G in Nigeria. TWO telecom equipment vendors Huawei Technologies, and L.M. Ericsson are set to slug it out on who bags the mouth-watering multi-million dollar contract from Vmobile Nigeria to install the first 3G .More |
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DCC Satellite as VSAT solution
of choice for e-business platforms Five years into the business of providing VSAT solutions, DCC Satellite & Networks ranks tops in the Nigerian financial services market. Asst general manager Isaac Osei spoke to CHUKWUEMEKA OKORO and CHIDI KWESI ..more |
