Basking on the euphoria of a new office in Lagos Nigeria, Nokia Siemens Networks last week announced the launch of Liquid Net, a new way to deliver broadband and allow an operator to set up its network to self_adapt to meet capacity and coverage requirements based on demand.

British telecom operator, Vizz Mobile, has announced the launch of its newest mobile operator, Vizz Africa, which would among other things, provide a dedicated mobile SIM card to allow the African community living, working and travelling to the UK, to communicate with their friends and relatives in Africa.

Alcatel-Lucent last week announced enhanced broadband portfolio to further accelerate the availability of its superfast broadband services.

Bharti Airtel, has announced a deal with Nokia Siemens Networks to expand its 2G (GSM/EDGE) networks and deploy 3G networks in seven African countries.

The global software giant, Microsoft has announced the winners of its annual Microsoft Partners in Learning Middle East and Africa forum, an event that recognises innovative teachers who creatively and effectively use technology in their curriculum to help improve the way students learn.

STARCOMMSPIc has introduced a value added service that will help its new customers who are migrating from other networks to notify their old contacts automatically about their new Starcomms number. Tagged ‘I don move’ the service enables Starcomms customers to receive calls made to their old numbers by their contacts with their Starcomms phones, while at the same time sending information to the callers that the customer now has a new number.

Despite relentless efforts to combat software piracy in Nigeria, 82 percent of personal computer users in the country acquire software illegally most of the time, a new study on users’ behaviours and attitudes toward software piracy and intellectual property rights, has revealed.

If you are reading this and are yet to register your phone line(s), it may just be too late, because barring any extension, the SIM card registration exercise embarked upon by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, in conjunction with all the telecom operators in Nigeria, ends today.

A Nigerian new media outlet, the NaijaAgroNet has emerged winner of the 2011 edition of the Highway Africa conference which ended recently in the city of Cape Town, South Africa.

LAST weekend, the Minister of Communications & Technology, Mrs Omobola Johnson addressed a stakeholders’forum in Lagos. At the event, all the parastatals under her ministry, from NCC and NigComSat to NITDA were present.

Deputy Governor of Ebonyi State, Engineer Dave Umahi, last Thursday commissioned the latest Gloworld shop located in the state capital, Abakiliki. The shop is the first such outlet to be opened by any telecommunications company in the state.

Search giant Google has Tuesday, launched a new website that allows business owners in the country to register their businesses online.

Stakeholders in the nation’s information technology, IT sector have charged Nigerians to consider the importance of making use of local content by switching over to Nigeria’s internet domain names otherwise called country code top level domain (ccTLD), .ng.

Nokia last week revealed that consistent media campaign and other related activities in the Nigerian mobile market has significantly checkmated the spread pf counterfeit mobile phones dropping the market share from 15 percent in July 2010 to 6 percent by July 2011.

If there are few people whose views should be taken seriously in the Nigerian ICT sector, one of them is Dr. Emmanuel Ekuwem. A former President of the Association of Telecommunication Companies of Nigeria, ATCON, past President of Nigeria Internet Group, NIG, and the CEO of Teledom Group, an indigenous conglomerate company with expertise in broadband ICT infrastructure development, deployment and software development, he can be said to have seen it all in terms of versatility, expertise and experience. In this interview, Ekuwem stressed the need for local content policy in the ICT sector, just like the case in the downstream sector of petroleum industry. According to him, this will bring about direct investment in ICT manufacturing and assembling, and create jobs for the teeming young Nigerians. Excerpts: