Indications are emerging that leading mobile operator, MTN may have drafted up a new team of representatives to handle its customer’s post paid roaming accounts.

To further combat criminal activities in the largest African ICT market, the Computer Village Ikeja, the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Ikeja division, Imohimi Edgal (CSP), has launched Community Safety Partnerships during his visit to Ogunbiyi Communities recenly, even as he assured on 90% crime reduction in the said market.

ICT and the New Economy Rapid technological progress in ICT and its speedy proliferation among developed countries have led to speculation that the widespread adoption of ICT will lead to a ‘frictionless’ economy, i.e., one in which transaction costs gradually approach zero, barriers to entry disappear, markets respond instantaneously and productivity increases substantially. In such an economy, there would be stable economic growth and low inflation, or the so-called ‘New Economy.

As part of its determination to take its solutions across the globe, the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, Checkpoint last week announced its operations in Nigeria.

Millions of telecoms subscribers across the country who have been contending with the problem of unsubscribed text messages invading their privacies from their providers can now hieve a sign of relieve as the National Lottery Regulatory Commission, NLRC said it would clamp down on any operator that breaches the rules and regulations guiding their operations.

Robson Plaza, the only major telecom and computer market in Warri has erupted in crisis and is currently engulfed in conflicts and disputes.

The Nigerian telecommunications market has never been without wars. In fact the sector could conveniently be said to have advanced its market leadership in Africa, in the midst of turbulence, litigations and outright wars.

Demonstrating continued momentum just six months after announcing its three-year strategic alliance with Microsoft, NetApp and DataGroupIT, NetApp’s exclusive distributor in Nigeria, has announced tight integration with Microsoft® technology to enable the growing number of joint customers and service providers to better optimize and evolve their infrastructure while dramatically reducing costs, streamlining management, and increasing business agility.

Nigeria’s financial sector has in the last six years witnessed dramatic changes and this is not referring to just the reforms. First, commercial banks got to realise that lowering barriers to entry like waving off the cash requirements of minimum balances in opening bank accounts to zero minimum balances, can increase retail accounts.

ICT worst headache, Cybercrime, dominated discussions at this year’s African ICT Best Practices Forum in Ouagadougou, the Burkina Faso capital, last week.

Driven by the desire to make mobile internet access more affordable to its growing number of data subscribers,
leading telecommunications company, Starcomms Plc., has unveiled a new volume base data renewal package exclusive for the MOTO Q and MOTO Q9C smart phones.

MTN Nigeria, one of the leading GSM operators in the country has once again showed that it is an
organisation of many firsts by being the first company in the telecoms sector to introduce what it called ‘MTN Fan Parks and Viewing Centres’ to enable its customers especially, football lovers have an experiential feeling of the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Participants at the recent concluded West African ICT (WAfICT 2010) Congress which coincided with the 10th edition of the West African International Telecommunications and Information Communication Technology Exhibition (W.Afri.Tel), agreed that more efforts needed to be expended on Africa’s ICT sector to sustain developments already made.

To ensure reduction in unemployment, poverty, crime and engender Information and Communications Technology, ICT literacy, African ICT Foundation is assisting Nigerian youths across the country to acquire ICT skills.

PRINCESS Ethel Eweka and Mrs Titi Salau are both members of the governing board of the National Information Development Agency (NITDA). On the sidelines of last month’s e-Nigeria summit which held in Abuja, they opined that the nation’s womenfolk must play a role in the National ICT4D plan if we are to achieve Vision 20-2020.