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NIGCOMSAT-2A, 2B: $2bn satellites may trigger broadcast, broadband boom in 2028

By Prince Osuagwu, Hi-Tech EditorIf the timeline set by the Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited, NIGCOMSAT, for the deployment of its two new communications satellites remains on course, Nigeria’s broadcast and broadband sectors could be heading for a major capacity boom by 2028. That prospect received a major boost at the weekend after the Federal Executive […]
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Why we cant be swallowed if consolidation comes, Visafone

Going by the obvious imbalance in the economy of CDMA operators when compared to that of their GSM counterparts, experts in the ICT sector have predicted that mergers and acquisitions among the CDMA companies may become so inevitable in the near future.

Green is clean

As an increasing number of companies make reducing carbon emissions a key part of their business strategies, how can Green IT help them reach these goals and how will it help them save costs in the long run?

Phase 3 boss roots for aerial optic fibre

As a way of side stepping the environmental and man-made challenges in deploying last mile technologies, Chief Executive Officer of Phase3 Telecom, Mr. Stanley Jegede has advocated that the use of aerial optic fibre network may just provide another reliable means of carrying communications traffic.

Beware! Your phone can poison you

Yes, as strange as it sounds, it is also the truth. One may probably not believe it but it has been discovered that cell phones can be harmful to a very great extent than the usual suspicion of emitting Electro Magnetic Radiation, EMR.

NiRA elects new officers tomorrow, holds AGM

The Nigeria Internet Registration Association, NIRA, has said that all preparations were concluded towards its annual General Meeting and elections tomorrow in Ikeja, Lagos .

Nokia unveils double SIM phone in Nigeria

Apparently yearning to the aspirations of its teeming customers in the West African market, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of mobile devices Nokia has unveiled a two-SIM phone in the market.

Intel set to acquire McAfee

Intel Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire one of the world’s largest dedicated security technology companies, McAfee, Inc., through the purchase of all of the company’s common stock at $48 per share in cash, for approximately $7.68 billion.

Direct mailing council receive ministerial backing

Newly formed Direct Mailing Practitioners Association of Nigeria , DMPAN, last week visited the Minister of Information and Communications, Professor Dora Akunyili, where it received a promise that the ministry was going to support every of its worthy causes.

At Ramadan, slashes night time calling rates

Starcomms Plc is offering its customers a N4 per minute on-net calls between the period of 10 pm and 7 am. The offer is to enable Starcomms customers, particularly the Muslims to share warm thoughts during the Ramadan period, while also giving opportunity to non-Muslims to extend warm greetings to their Muslim and other friends.

Nigerian lawmakers need IT training , expert

The need for the Nigerian lawmakers, the financial crimes investigators, the lawyers and regulatory agencies, the media, among other stakeholders to be Information Technology, IT compliant has been stressed

Where’s Govt’s local content policy in INEC’s e-registration campaign?

As Prof Attahiru Jega racks his brain to pick a company out of the seven that scaled the first huddle of the INEC contract scramble, Managing Director of NigComSat, Engr Ahmed Rufai may have Advised that there was no reason for anybody to develop migraine over the smooth delivery of the DCC machines only if the local content policy of the federal government would be applied here.

e-Waste concerns re-echoes at clean environment forum

Even with the Basel Convention prohibiting International waste transfer, the dumping of e-waste into the Nigerian market and the rest of the African sub-region has continued to grow in geometric progression attracting both national and international regulatory authorities.

CTO powers search for rural connection solutions in Ghana

Ghana’s quest for effective and sustainable connectivity solutions for its rural community may have started yielding the expected results when stakeholders including including the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO), Ghana’s Ministry of Communications, the National Communications Authority (NCA), the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC), among others gathered in Sunyani in the Brong-Ahafo region recently to discuss how best to expand ICT communication in under-served regions of the country.

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