Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has called on state governments to stop shutting down telecommunications base stations and other facilities. The commission made the call yesterday at the South West Sector Stakeholders’ Parliament with Relevant Agencies in Charge of Telecommunications Matters at Best Western Plus Hotel, Iyaganku, Ibadan, Oyo State. Speaking at the forum, the Executive…

About 2.34 million subscribers have been added to the telecommunications network, according to figures released yesterday by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).

Basking in the euphoria of 58 years of independence, one critical part of Nigeria’s economy that has performed creditably well is the Information and Communications Technology (ICT)/ telecoms sector. Currently contributing about 12 per cent to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the sector was adjudged a ‘Star Performer’, at the last rebasing exercise of…

Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the Consumer Protection Council (CPC), have inked an agreement for a joint investigative committee for consumer issues in the telecommunications industry.

Despite several challenges confronting telecoms operators individually and collectively in the country, there was an appreciable growth rate in quarter two.     Quarter two, which ended in June showed that the Mobile Networks Operators (MNOs) combined saw a 6.12 per cent growth rate from 2.92 per cent in the first quarter of the year…

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said local content development is key to the growth of Nigeria’s telecommunications sector. Speaking at the launch of an indigenous messaging application, ‘SoftTalk’ in Lagos, he said the Federal Government was working to ensure that local content development became prominent in the promising telecommunications sector. The App…

The vandalisation of telecommunications infrastructure in the country might have taken a turn for the worse, given the failure of the National Assembly to pass the Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) bill, 10 years after it was presented.

The Nigerian telecommunications industry is plagued by massive interconnect debt, which the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) puts at N165b. ADEYEMI ADEPETUN, x-rays the looming effect of this challenge on the sector. The deregulation of the telecommunications sector in 2001 opened up the country and led to the issuance of telecoms licenses to major service providers.…

The Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) has directed operators in the telecommunication industry to begin data rollover from June 26. This means telecom operators must henceforth add a subscriber’s unused or unfinished data to his/her new or next data subscription. Before this new directive from the NCC, subscribers’ unfinished or unused data subscription automatically became useless…

The telecoms and the information service sector contributed a whooping N8.6 trillion to the Nigerian economy in 2017.According to findings by BudgIT Nigeria, the figure was based on the number of workforce in the telecoms industry, money expended by Nigerians on phone calls....

Telecoms regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has asked service providers in the industry to desist from act capable of inflicting pains and worries on subscribers in the country. Specifically, NCC wants operators including MTN, Globacom, Airtel and 9Mobile, among others, to desist from acts that amount to cheating the about 150 million active subscribers…

Agitations for multinationals in the telecoms, oil and gas companies to list on the nation’s bourse and encourage the active participation of indigenous consumers in the company’s wealth creation process have been on the front burner since after the 2007-2008 global financial crises. Over the years, the nation’s stock market has played a fundamental role…