WITH a fresh injectionof about $350Million equity financing from a group of investors recently, Helios Towers, a Nigerian co-location, tower outsourcing and management company, may be on its way to unifying African telecom operations, replicating the type of infrastructure sharing services rendered in Nigeria to other African countries.

PAN-African NGO for the development of telecom in Africa, Africa Telecom Development Initiative, ATDI, has commended the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC for its revolutionary advocacy for the protection of telecom consumers in the country through the monthly telecom consumer parliament .

THE epileptic electricity supply in the country and its accompanying erratic voltage is not friendly with mobile phones. At least it has resulted in the damage of countless mobile phones, chargers, among other appliances and this is getting industry practitioners on their toes.

Vice President Goodluck Jonathan was upbeat with the renewed sale of Nitel when some journalists approached him sometime early this year in Manhattan, New York, at an Investors’ Forum organised by BNP Paribas Consortium, the transaction advisers in NITEL privatisation, at the instance of the National Council on Privatisation.

By Emmanuel Elebeke In a move to offer quality customer experience to its teaming Nigeria subscribers, MTN Nigeria has unveiled  MyCustomer Charter, a new customer care principle for its customer service representatives aimed at achieving the best- in-class customer experience on the network. Unveiling the new principle at a banquet organized for the company’s customers […]

By Prince Osuagwu With eyes set on the top spot of the Nigerian telecoms market, Etisalat Nigeria is deploying several innovations and customer relations strategies to achieve the target. Now the company is offering new subscribers on its post paid package, tagged Elite World, free Easynet modem or 3 months free blackberry service for subscribing […]

As part of its commitment towards appreciating and supporting Youth who actively strive to make positive changes within their communities, Nokia and LEAP Africa have announced readiness to honour an additional ten young Nigerians through the 6th Nigerian Youth Leadership Awards. This year’s event which held at the Shell Hall at Lagos’ Muson Centre, Victoria […]

By Prince Osuagwu For Second National Operator, Globacom, memories of  this year’s Lagos International Trade Fair which rapped up penultimate week, would  last long. If not for any other thing, due to the high interests its prepaid 3G plus elicited among visitors at the fair. Globacom said that though all of its other products maximally […]

FOR the 27 year old Blessing Urieto, Thursday 12 November was a day of self fulfillment and dream come through, as MTN Foundation in partnership with Friends of the Disabled Vocational Training Centre commissioned a vocational training project for people with disabilities at Ojo Oba, Isale Eko, Lagos.

FOR MTN Nigeria, one thing it holds so dear to heart in carrying out its customer relations activity is recognition of customers loyalty for sustainability of its business and improvement of quality of service delivery to the customers.

Tri-ontinental Ltd in conjunction with IBM recently hosted a technology update seminar in Lagos. This event was intended to discuss the critical role that the dynamic infrastructure plays in the IBM Vision.

Global leader in critical power and cooling services, APC by Schneider Electric has announced the opening of a swap centre in Nigeria before the end of the year to provide local warranty support on single phase uninterruptible power supplies (UPSes).

This year’s edition of the biennial Global Public Summit of the World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA) ended recently in Hamilton, Bermuda.

TO facilitate govern ment’s efforts to actualizing the Vision 20: 2020, the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba recently launched new ultra modern telemedicine equipment to improve the qaulity of health care.

wins Best Cost Efficiency Solution for Africa award By Prince Osuagwu, who was in Cape Town, South Africa Even with the sonorous renditions of South Africa’s music star, Yvonne Chaka Chaka and the pathetic touch of the lyrics which actually dwelled on helping UNICEF achieve its charity cause, AfricaCom awards night  was still a tension […]