If there is anything the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC should worry about, it is how to improve the quality of service by the telecommunication operators in the country.

Apparently piqued by myriads of problems emanating from emerging markets of Africa and the Middle East, telecommunications giant, MTN has thrown open a competition to challenge application developers around the world to come forward with innovative apps that can solve problems of Africa and the Middle East.

As the second Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE) in Sub-Saharan Africa, achieved almost a decade ago, former Consulting Manager with Schlumberger Omnes overseeing Consulting Practice in Nigeria Geomarket, Network Consultant with Citigroup and Barclays Capital both in UK carrying out network consulting works in Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) for years, Ademola Adesakin Osindero, cut his networking teeth sharper than most of his contemporaries.

Leading global mobile advertising network, InMobi has released its second quarter mobile insights report for Africa which shows that the Nigerian on-line advertising market has grown by 60% over the past quarter making the country the fastest grower on the continent with 2.3 billion mobile advertising Impressions in the second quarter Q2.

WHEN the number portability project of the Nigerian Communications Commission becomes reality, your MTN number can become a Glo, Etisalat or even Airtel number, or the other way round. Even as you may wish to do this at will, the interesting thing is that it would also be without having to change your SIM card.

Etisalat Nigeria has explained the reason it partnered the Nigerian Bar Asssociation, NBA, on its recently concluded Annual General Conference in PortHarcourt, River State.

To celebrate the coming of a new school term of 2011, HP Experience Store has launched a back-to-
school sales promotion with an offer of a free Microsoft Office Suite for every HP 635 laptop purchased between 22 August and 30 September 2011.

Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Visafone Communications Limited, Mr. Sailesh Iyer, has called on the Lagos State Government to take advantage of information technology, which his firm can provide, to promote the state’s economy and boost its revenue generation

While assuring on working towards desirable, increasing global competitiveness, wealth and job creation, Minister of Communications and Technology, Mrs Omobola Olubusola Johnson has said that Nigeria should replicate the successes recorded in the telecommunications industry in the IT arena.

Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Dr. Eugene Juwah, at the weekend lamented the dearth of software encoders in Nigerian and requested the National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion, NOTAP, to step into this aspect for the benefit of the industry.

A few weeks to the planned launch of its smart devices into the Nigerian market,Huawei Technologies, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider has laid down the gauntlet. Having initially focused on making handsets for carriers, China’s largest phone-equipment supplier will introduce various ranges of her devices as early as next month into the Nigerian competitive Mobile handset market.

Efforts to relocate the Nigerian Silicon Valley, the Computer Village Ikeja may not have yielded the expected resulted as the President of the Computer and Allied Products Dealers Association of Nigeria, (CAPDAN) Mr Tunji Balogun has said that the umbrella body has been excluded by the Lagos State Government from the relocation plans.

Nigerian Internet users may again begin to experience disruption from this week as the Nigerian Telecommunications PLC, NITEL, at the weekend, indicated a fault in the SAT-3 cable.

For a long time, one issue that has engaged the nation’s ICT experts and others is how to reduce poverty to a tolerable level in our country especially, and generally in the world.

Frontline mobile phone makers, Nokia, at the weekend announced that it was targeting to use the next few years to connect the next one billion people that are yet to be connected to mobile communications.