Telecoms

Telecommunications subscribers have again tasked Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) on the need for improved service delivery in the country.Gathered last Thursday at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) organized Consumer Outreach Programme, the 20th Consumer Town Hall Meeting, held at Sangotedo, Ajah, 90 per cent of subscribers who attended, lamented the menace of unsolicited Short Message Service (SMS)..

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) innovators, industry players and stakeholders are among the large number of delegates to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Telecom World 2016.

Already, Nigeria, whose broadband penetration is currently at 10 per cent, has initiated plan to increase it to 30 per cent in another two years, through the National Broadband Plan.

The students can walk into any Aptech center, register for a scholarship exam and score well to get up to 50 per cent scholarship.

This, according to the ministry is targeted at making Nigeria more competitive and also guard against the country becoming a dumping ground for foreign technologies.

Nigeria’s telecommunications sector has witnessed tremendous growth over the last 15 years. It has been adjudged as the largest market in Africa…thanks to the last Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rebasing in the country.

Last year’s edition of TechPlus, the brainchild of Connect Marketing Limited attracted approximately 6,500 participants, an impressive feat for a maiden outing.

A media stakeholder group has called on the Federal Government, through the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) to adopt October as the Nigerian National Cybersecurity Awareness month as being done globally.

Huawei, yesterday, informed that it had joined the Smart Africa Alliance as Information and Communications Technologies advisor and Platinum member at the Smart Africa Board Meeting.

OLX has introduced a new feature on the platform called Do it for Me (D.I.F.M), to address the needs of users who have no time to post and meet with potential buyers.

Kirusa, an Information Technology company that provides telecoms and social media solutions, has introduced ‘myGenie’, a free airtime app for prepaid Android users in Nigeria.

New prepaid customers on the Glo network will now have eight times value on every recharge in a special welcome plan by Nigeria’s grandmasters of data, Globacom.