Sony Mobile Communications says it’s targeting the top spot of the Nigerian mobile market again. This time around with innovative range of Xperia smartphones that would soon be released into the market. To underscore its seriousness, the smartphone maker has appointed digital equipment distributors, Let Me Distribute, LMD as new sole distributor for the Nigerian market.

The Consumer Protection Council, CPC, has said that its aim of investigating activities and services of Digital Satellite Television, DSTV, was not to upturn the judgment of the court which ruled in favour of Multichoice Nigeria on the recent price increase saga, but to give attention to barrage of reports reaching its offices alleging unsatisfactory service offerings by the PayTv operator.

The Nigerian Telecommunications sector witnessed a 0.8 per cent marginal decline in the first quarter of 2015. In the latest quarterly report released by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, the sector contributed N1,344,489.25 million (8.38%) to total economic output for the opening quarter of 2015, in real terms, as against 8.46 per cent recorded in 2014.

It would definitely be out of place to say that the just concluded Card, ATM and Mobile Expo 2015 which held in Lagos recently did not live up to its name. However, a mere observer would wonder why for a three-day event called the ‘Card Expo,’ the emphasis was not just on the physical, plastic cards but also on contactless, cardless payments as well. One major theme that seemed to run through the programme from the opening ceremony down to the various forums and payment pitches is this: the future of the card just might be cardless.

Tanzania has generated plenty of buzz in the African television industry-and rightly so. For starting its digital migration process in December 2012 and completing it on 30 April 2015, the East African country succeeded where other countries, including Nigeria, failed.