Microsoft announced Wednesday it would let go up to 1,850 employees and a Finnish union called it the end of the company’s smartphone manufacturing business, bought from Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia.

Smart phone maker, Alcatel has disclosed plans to support Daydream, a platform for high-performance mobile virtual reality (VR) recently unveiled at the Google’s annual developer conference, Google I/O.

Alcatel Nigeria ha s announced the introduction of a brand-new PIXI experience, the PIXI 4 family smart phone series that offers premium entry-level smartphones and tablets with a comprehensive user experience in design, audio, camera and battery life.

THE present economic realities occasioned by the dwindling oil revenue and scarce foreign exchange may have come down hard on the telecommunications sector of the economy. “This appears more dangerous considering that the sector has continuously been described as the mainstay of the economy after oil. “Practitioners in the sector, have however, asked the government to act fast to arrest the drive before the major hopes of stabilizing the economy diminish to leave it further down the woods.

THE Minister for Communications, Barr. Abdur-Adebayo Shittu says Nigeria currently requires more satellites to enable the ComSat-1R offer better serves to Nigeria in the areas of telecommunications services and broadband penetration.