Communications

Telecomunications subscribers nationwide lodged 19,977 complaints against Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) between January and October this year.

Although it has been temporarily suspended by the Federal Government, there are, however, several underlining factors that still surround the operations of the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD).

Nigeria is one of the largest telecom markets in Africa with only a few network providers. The industry is also the largest segment in the Information and Communication sector and in Q1 2019 it contributed N2 trillion to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). MTN Nigeria, is the country’s largest network provider, with a subscriber base of 40.8%, Glo, a Nigerian multinational is second with 24.54%, Airtel and 9mobile are third and fourth with 24.51% and 9.8% respectively.

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Thirteen years after flag-off of Digital Switch Over (DSO) by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the non-release of N45 billion by the Federal Government to the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has frustrated its take-off in the country.

The Minister of Communications, Dr. Isa Pantami, has directed parastatals under his ministerial supervision not to reject corps members posted to them by the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).

As Nigeria celebrates 59 years of independence, one sector that has distinguished itself remains the Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

Telecommunications operators in the country have been handed a new order to either improve telephony services or face fresh forms of sanctions.

The Ghanaian information and technology space is set to benefit from Nigeria’s data centre operations, as operators begin exchange services.

About one billion users were newly connected to the various mobile services in the last five years in Nigeria and other part of the globe.

The Federal Government through the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) is looking into a potential breach of privacy rights of Nigerians by the social media platform, Truecaller.

There is an emerging niche trend in counterfeits, especially mobile phones and it threatens to destroy the telecommunications industry. Counterfeit sales have never been higher, costing the mobile phone industry billions of dollars in lost sales every year.