Ahead of the November ending expected final sale of Nitel, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Communications, Senator Sylvester Anyanwu, has said that debts incurred by Nigerian Telecommunication Limited (Nitel), will be shared between the new buyer and Federal Government.

AT the launch of its pageant reality show in Lagos last week, smart phone maker, Anabel Group slashed its different range of phones by 50% as against its original price.

THE current chairperson of the Bureau of African Ministers of Communications and Information Technologies (ICT) and Minister of Information and Communications, Prof. Dora Akunyili would on Thursday this week in Lagos, declare open the annual Nigeria Digital Sense forum.

Apparently trying to wet its customers’ appetite before the commercial launch of the Glo 1 submarine cable that landed in Lagos and Ghana recently, Second National Operator, Globacom last week, launched its prepaid 3G Plus modem, plugging its prepaid subscribers on the high speed internet service.

IN keeping to its dream of becoming a responsible cooperate entity in Nigeria, MTN Nigeria says it has paid over N300 billion to the different tiers of government in charges and taxes from 2001 till date.

Etisalat Nigeria is trying hard to push frontiers of the mobile market both in Nigeria, entire Africa and the Middle East. These has led to a lot of cutting edge service provisions cum aesthetic packages and offerings tailored at plugging the youths into the growing mobile culture in the world.

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has been described as the only viable tool through which Nigeria could move out of the current global economy meltdown. The National President, Association of Telecommunication Companies of Nigeria, Dr. Emmanuel Ekuwem stated this while announcing the opening of the 2009 COMBIT Africa and exhibition to be held in Lagoon Restaurant, Lagos.

MTN Nigeria, last week, entered the submarine cable competition going on in Nigeria today, joining ten other countries of the world in an agreement that would usher in West African Cable Systems, WACS.

AS count down for Princess Anabel begins, there seems to be great expectations and excitements in the Nigerian entertainment industry as Anabel Entertainment, the new entertainment unit of Anabel Group is preparing to launch a pageant and reality show with a difference.

IT seems as if the International Telecommunications Union, ITU, is bench marking the growth of world technological improvements with activities in the Nigeria ICT sector. This is as the world telecom body, at the weekend, approved new standard tagged G.hn, for wiring new digital offerings like High Definition TV (HDTV) and digital Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) in homes.