The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has arrested no fewer than five suspects for allegedly engaging in fraudulently registration and sale of Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards. The Director of Public Affairs, NCC, Dr Ikechukwu Adinde, in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, said the arrest was part of the commission’s […]
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Innovative and youth-focused telecommunications company, 9mobile has restated its commitment to supporting initiatives that promote a culture of reading and publishing, especially among the youths. The telecom company gave this assurance while marking this year’s World Book and Copyright Day, an event set aside to promote reading, publishing and […]
The Presidency has put up a spirited defense for the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Dr. Isah Pantami asking Nigerians to forget his past as it relates to his confessed tendencies towards terrorism. In a statement by Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu on Thursday, Pantami’s utterances that seemed to have […]
Inundated with requests from the telecom industry for trial Frequencies in certain Spectrum bands for the purpose of verification of certain concepts and theories, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has made some clarifications in this regard. The NCC recently said in a public notice titled: Proof of Concept (PoC) […]
Smile Nigeria has explained the recent network outage experienced by its customers. In a statement issued in Lagos, the company regretted the inconvenience the outage may have caused its customers. Smile disclosed that the outage was due to network upgrade and modernization activities that it embarked upon to strengthen its […]
Federal Government says it has concluded plans to Kick-start the new rollout of the Digital Switch Over, DSO, in Lagos State, scheduled for April, 29, 2021. DSO, is the process of transitioning from analogue to digital television broadcasting. The transition from analogue to digital television decision followed a treaty agreement […]
Telecommunications companies have insisted that the banks have to pay the N42 billion debt for the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) and called for the intervention of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) over the dispute. Representatives of mobile network operators said at the […]
Minister of Information and Culture, Hon. Lai Mohammed has described the general insecurity in the country as a big threat to national unity and continuous existence of the country. He made this disclosure on Thursday in his opening speech at a town hall meeting in Kaduna. The event was […]
The South Korean electronics manufacturer, LG, is closing its loss-making mobile phone business. The board of directors approved the move on Monday, LG Electronics said in a statement released in Seoul. The shutdown of LG’s mobile phone sector is expected to be completed by the end of July. “LG’s strategic […]
Finally, the Telecom giant MTN Nigeria and its banking partners have reached agreement on unstructured supplementary service data (USSD)channels services restriction. The development is relief for Nigerian customers on the network locked out from accessing their bank accounts for airtime vending. Following the intervention of Dr. Isa Ali Pantami, minister […]