Chief Executives of the world’s leading satellite operators met yesterday in Washington at the Satellite 2015 conference to announce that ESOA, the world’s only CEO-driven satellite organisation, is expanding to include satellite operators from the ITU’s region including Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
With the Nigerian Communication Satellite (NIGCOMSAT) Limited as part of the roadmap, the new development highlights the importance the sector’s executives attach to leading a coordinated and impactful response to the global challenges and opportunities it faces.

Piracy in the payTV market is still on the increase, causing more economic harm than good despite regulations. The issue does not only affect MultiChoice as Pay TV operator, but also the nation’s economy in the long run. John Ugbe, Managing Director, MultiChoice Nigeria, in this interview with Emeka Aginam, highlighted ways to address the ugly trend. He said that one of the ways introduced by Multi Choice to address the issue is the introduction of more secure decoders.

Ghana’s wireless broadband and related services provider, Surfline at the weekend received fresh boost from the Chinese telecoms firm, Huawei Technologies for the roll-out the second phase of long term evolution (LTE)/4G in the country.

In a concerted effort to tackle unemployment and unlock youth potentials in Nigeria and the rest of the African countries, platform and productivity company, Microsoft Nigeria Thuesady in Lagos signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Jobberman, one of the Nigerian recruitment websites.

In partnership with Microsoft Nigeria, Reliance Infosystems has unveiled Microsoft Azure as a timely measure to alleviating high IT capital expenditure by businesses.