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 […]
SIM/NIN Harmonisation the genie lives on, By Okoh Aihe
The inability of the nation to complete the SIM/NIN harmonisation programme introduced by the government a couple of years ago is a clear illustration that there are no simple processes or even stories in our part of the world. Ordinary SIM registration which a traveller would normally conclude at any international airport on acquiring a mobile […]
Between two young minds, a pledge to revamp the telecoms industry, By Okoh Aihe
The story of their meeting excited me. In my mind’s eyes, I have always pictured two friends meeting, not a boss and a subordinate, but two friends with corresponding minds and interests but also with transcendental knowledge of the millennial generation on tech issues, to discuss the fate of an industry and a regulatory agency which one […]
Between MTN and 9Mobile, not the case of big fish swallows small fish, By Okoh Aihe
One of the most profound headlines for me in those days came from a Nigerian magazine whose name I can’t recall. Big Fish Swallow Small Fish was the title of the story. I think it was in the 80s, I am not so sure any more, but it remains etched in my memory till the end […]
From WRC-23 to COP 28, Telecom binds with a thread, By Okoh Aihe
THE story of Nigeria’s attendance at COP 28 holding in Dubai will not stop making the rounds very soon. How a country with so much hunger, so much bile, and so much poverty in the extreme could take a contingent of 1,411 people to a climate programme in a gathering of the global community in Dubai […]
Making the DSO work in Nigeria, By Okoh Aihe
THE story of the nation’s implementation of the digital switchover, DSO, process appears convoluted and headed towards an uncomplimentary denouement except urgent steps are taken to refocus the exercise. Yes, urgency should form the soul of the implementation process. DSO is not just only about the benefits of the exercise in terms of quality of broadcasting […]
