Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Dr Eugene Juwah, at the just concluded Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain said that the country may not fully harness the potentials of broadband deployment for wealth creation and employment generation until the fixed line segment of the telecommunications market is revived.

THE increasing cases of building collapse in the country has been attributed to poor lightning protection system. Managing Director of ATNIG Lightening Protection Technologies, Mr. Babalola Olusanya disclosed this during a media parley organized by the company in Lagos.

Research In Motion on Monday announced the new BlackBerry® Bold 9790 smartphone in Nigeria featuring a compact design and offers users a fully loaded, high performance smartphone with the dual benefits of a high-resolution touch display and a highly tactile keyboard.

Marking a crucil milestone in the move toward the commercial introduction of lightRadio to address the exploding demand for high-speed mobile data services, Alcatel-Lucent in collaboration with Etisalat have completed a technology trial with the groundbreaking lightRadio portfolio, highlighting how it can meet fast-growing customer demand for high-bandwidth mobile broadband services.

With Latin America, Middle East, Africa and Asia as the key geographies to benefit, one of the global leaders in providing mobile solutions beyond VAS,Comviva last week announced a strategic partnership with MasterCard to launch a first-of-its-kind open loop Mobile Money Partnership Program.

There are three general principles in line with the policy document that we believe can provide a consistent frame of reference in pursuing a broadband policy initiative for Nigeria:

Chief executive officer of Etisalat Nigeria, Steve Evans, has said that his company was using the opportunity of the Mobile world congress innBarcelona to negotiate with global phone manufacturers to see how prices of Smartphones below the $50-barrier can be made possible for his Nigerian subscribers.

SOftware giant, Microsoft at the weekend launched its signature no-cost enterprise-class technologies and cloud-based services for Lekki British School in Lagos.

Minister of Communications Technology, Ms Omobola Johnson has accepted to chair the eWorld 2012 Broadband Forum scheduled to hold on March 21, at Golden Gate in Lagos.

To further deepen it network capacity and quality across the 36 states in Nigeria, Airtel Nigeria has launched a 3.75 Generation (G) service targeted at boosting customers’ experience.