The Managing Director of Huawei Device, Mr. Tony Liangwei, manufacturers of Huawei phones has predicted a 35 percent increase in smartphone market in Nigeria by 2015, which he says means that 30 million smartphones will be sold in the country.

THERE are renewed protests in the telecommunications sector against the Federal Government’s inability to enforce the Nigerian Investment Promotion Council Act, (NIPC) of 1990.

THE two most important demands Nigerian subscribers make of their service providers are tariff reduction and improved quality of service. However, the two demands would appear to be mutually exclusive, going by the country’s level of infrastructural development.

THERE are strong convictions among world renowned telecom analyst that given the exponential influence, mobile devices powered by the potency of the broadband capacity may replace books.

ERICSSON has commenced preparations for a seamless adoption of m-commerce in Nigeria. To create the awareness, the company hosted a global stakeholder engagement roundtable in Lagos for leaders from the banking, financial, telecoms and government sectors of the country.

AS part of its commitment to make an inroad in every emerging market, global leader in the new digital era, ASUS, last week in Lagos launched its range of Mobile Personal Computers into the Nigerian market.

Nokia has made its promise as part of its commitment in empowering software incubators with IT tools, as no fewer than 10 local independent developers and 6 local student developers were given Lumia 800 smartphones on Monday in Lagos.

In a global online launch event yesterday, the president of Microsoft Server and Tools Business, Satya Nadella has announced the general availability of Windows Server 2012 built from the cloud up for the modern datacenter.

UNTIL the passing away of Vanguard’s Entertainment Editor, Mr Amadi Ogbonnaya, last week, not many people knew that he actually started his journalism career as a telecommunications reporter.

The Nigerian government is stopping at nothing to ensure that massive investment is made in the newly created broadband sector of the economy.

A group of women in the information technology sector of the economy, under the aegis of Women in Technology in Nigeria (Witin), have decried the negative impact of technology on the Nigerian child, stating that as mothers, they would not allow values to be derailed for mere technological developments.

Nigeria’s efforts to join the global broadband community has crystallized into a focused master-plan unfolded by the Chief Executive of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Dr. Eugene Juwah, at the Nigerian Broadband Forum which held at the Eko Hotel in Lagos, with the Secretary General of the International Telecommunications Union, Dr. Hamadoun Toure, commending government’s support for broadband connectivity.

Traditional teaching and learning methods in the conventional classroom is about to phase as an ICT firm, Teledom Group International, said it has perfected plans to launch the first global smart classroom in the country.

Google Nigeria has extended an innovative program called Google Apps supporting programs’ (GASP) to the University of Ibadan.

Plans have been concluded to assemble Nigeria’s leading lights and stakeholders in the telecommunications sector in Lagos for a one day forum to brainstorm on the implementation of the Nigerian Commu-nications Commission (NCC)proposed Mobile Number Portability (MNP).