Communications

The generative AI platform ChatGPT can now fetch data directly from the internet and gather up-to-date information in real-time, its creator OpenAI said Wednesday, in a major milestone for the software.

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is worried about the underutilisation of the country’s emergency communications centres (ECC). NCC, which disclosed that there are 27 functional ECCs spread across the country, hinted that four more centres would be added before the end of July. Speaking on behalf of the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Prof. Umar…

There appears to be no end in sight for Nigeria’s Digital Switch Over (DSO) journey as the paucity of funds, lack of political will and new technicalities may have stalled its progress.

Search giant, Google has announced the expansion of its Flood Hub platform to cover 80 countries worldwide, including the addition of eight new countries in Africa.

After two years of extensive research and test-running, Konga said it is set to raise the bar of service delivery in the industry with the launch of KongaNow, for same-day delivery platform, of which the firm will take complete responsibility.

AF-CIX, the new interconnection platform launched in Nigeria to boost Internet speed and improve network performance for Internet service providers, content delivery networks, cloud providers and enterprises..

One of Nigeria’s Internet service providers (ISPs) with operations in West Africa, Tizeti, has announced an expanded collaboration with Microsoft to address the issue of broadband underdevelopment in Cote d’Ívoire and bring Internet access...

The newly elected president of the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA), Adesola Akinsanya, has promised to improve the fortunes of the registry, especially the slow attraction of Nigeria’s domain name, the .ng.

New industry data has revealed that 5G connectivity has reached a tipping point globally as the networks are now active in 47 of the world’s 70 largest economies by Gross Domestic Product (GDP).