A closer look at the Zero Rated Access Initiative, by Okoh Aihe
The NCC programme wasn’t part of my schedule last week but the insistence of a young employee drew me to the Hilton, venue of the programme, and I left very appreciative that I found my way there. Sometimes, you need to clear your schedule to do certain things. This was one of them. As I […]
Even in technology, it’s America First, by Okoh Aihe
The American elections are over and President Donald Trump won convincingly, literally blowing Kamala Harris out of the political space. The contrarians had their emotional expectations but the big boys who spent their money for Trump and the ordinary folks in the motley crowd, had their way. That is the way of politics. Some get really […]
How would Dokpesi have responded to AI? By Okoh Aihe
On a day that Dr Raymond Dokpesi should have been 73 penultimate week, he wasn’t around because he had gone on a long trip. But his friends still came in his absence to speak some kind words as befitting reminiscences for the life of a good man whose memory should be kept alive in perpetuity. In […]
A rebasing brings telecoms industry to reality, by Okoh Aihe
SOME folks who read this syndicated column every Wednesday have asked me at one point or the other: what beef do you have with the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC? Not any, I would always say, although beef is not the best source of protein for a senior citizen. So, beefing can be an invitation to trouble. […]
Mr President, a Board for NCC, by Okoh Aihe
ON this very day, I want to acknowledge with utmost respect that there could be so many items on President Bola Tinubu’s plate; so I do not, by any means, want to add anything to that mix which could give even an elephant a headache. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown, they say. Looking […]
After SIM-NIN Policy, a plea for DSO, by Okoh Aihe
LET me serve you this whiff of good news in case it had sped by unrecognised. Dr Aminu Maida, Executive Vice Chairman, EVC, of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, declared in Lagos, last week, that the SIM-NIN Linkage Policy, which enjoyed a convoluted tenure, has formally been completed. With that declaration, it means every phone number […]
5G facing slow growth in Nigeria, by Okoh Aihe
I was going through some of my old writings last week and I chanced on a few of them focused on 5G technology. I was still nearly overwhelmed by the great expectations, the amount of euphoria and excitement that heralded the coming of the technology to our nation. It was almost attributed as a silver bullet […]
Will there be garlands for NTA? By Okoh Aihe
THE Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, got its fair share of the wave of federal appointments as Mr Bayo Onanuga, the Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, last Friday, announced the appointment of seven Executive Directors. The announcement led me down the path of nostalgia, a wishful past when NTA was the king of broadcasting […]
Can WiFi 6 ignite a new industry story? By Okoh Aihe
THE Stakeholders Consultative Forum on Emerging Technologies which held in Lagos on September 19, 2024, as a precursor to the coming of WIFI 6, has animated industry discussions on the beautiful shape of things to come. It is a new world out there and the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, with necessary approvals from the International Telecommunications […]
A DSO fight most unnecessary, by Okoh Aihe
WRITING on the new Government’s initiative on the Digital Switchover, DSO, on August 28, 2024, we made the following observations on this column: “This has not said much about the place of the signal distributors and Set Top Box manufacturers who were encouraged to invest heavily in the DSO process and have hardly recouped some of […]
Edo State on a digital radar, by Okoh Aihe
Our genre of politics demands that even good deeds/achievements should be degraded to the level of little acceptance, if there is any acceptance at all.
