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 […]
A writer in search of NTEL, by Okoh Aihe
MY friend wasn’t happy with me last week. How can you be writing technology and you allow these operators to run away with my money? But how would I be clairvoyant to know your little fights with the operators? My friend loves gizmos and is hooked on any organisation that promises good data bundles. So he […]
From Rehoboam syndrome to Cybersecurity Tax, by Okoh Aihe
THERE is always something new to talk about in this part of the world. If it is not fuel queues which remain stubborn irrespective of the removal of subsidy about eleven months ago, it’s about the increase of tariff on electricity, a product that is hardly available in the market or even the soaring cost of […]
In plain irony, government remains a disruptor of digital economy, by Okoh Aihe
CLICHES often find expression in some happenings in this nation. The more things change the more they remain the same. That was the position of French writer, John Baptiste Alphonse Karr in 1849. His words are very much alive in Nigeria today with uncanny accuracy. The big news last week from Kaduna State, which was nasty […]
For Multichoice, a call for restraint and reason, by Okoh Aihe
There has been a swirl of news around Multichoice lately. On one hand, Canal+, the Vivendi owned French pay TV giant, has made a hefty $2.9bn offer to buy the South African headquartered Multichoice, which has operations across Africa. Big money at play, you may want to say. On the other hand, Multichoice Nigeria, which is […]
With signals in 54 countries, Arise escalates competition across Africa, by Okoh Aihe
THE story, last week, that Arise News Channel is live in 54 countries in Africa, including South Africa and nine other Southern African countries on the platform of Multichoice, sent a ball of excitement down my system and, at once, elicited the kind of euphoria and patriotic fervency I feel when a Nigerian is doing something […]
A case for Telecoms industry using NERC’s metrics, by Okoh Aihe
There is no shame whatsoever that the industry is serving less than 14 million of our huge population. What happens to the rest?
At NAB, what happens in Vegas can’t remain in Vegas, by Okoh Aihe
FOR most people who see Las Vegas as the Sin City, what happens in Vegas remains in Vegas. They hardly want to talk about what goes on in those big hotels, how they lost hefty money at the casinos, how their boxing favourite lost a fight where they paid huge sums of money for front row […]
NIN-SIM linkage – a story in search of a good ending, by Okoh Aihe
Looking at the pervasive insecurity in the nation at the moment, it will be right to say that the NIN-SIM Linkage Policy wasn’t a bad idea at all but for the sloppiness with which it was introduced by a former minister who literally slapped it on Nigerians as a necessity that must be executed within […]
Cable force majeure in the international waters, by Okoh Aihe
FACED with terribly hot weather that was complicated by the dearth of power supply across the nation, quite a number of phone users and big corporate players really got distraught last week when voice and data services simply went down. Tension spiked some more, especially when this was happening at a time that food inflation was […]
Pay TV market prepares for new competition, by Okoh Aihe
It will be exciting to see how SLTV excites the market with its business plan; but it will be difficult to base your business plan on somebody’s ideas, plans, products and programmes
