Alcatel-Lucent last week announced enhanced broadband portfolio to further accelerate the availability of its superfast broadband services.

Bharti Airtel, has announced a deal with Nokia Siemens Networks to expand its 2G (GSM/EDGE) networks and deploy 3G networks in seven African countries.

The global software giant, Microsoft has announced the winners of its annual Microsoft Partners in Learning Middle East and Africa forum, an event that recognises innovative teachers who creatively and effectively use technology in their curriculum to help improve the way students learn.

STARCOMMSPIc has introduced a value added service that will help its new customers who are migrating from other networks to notify their old contacts automatically about their new Starcomms number. Tagged ‘I don move’ the service enables Starcomms customers to receive calls made to their old numbers by their contacts with their Starcomms phones, while at the same time sending information to the callers that the customer now has a new number.

Despite relentless efforts to combat software piracy in Nigeria, 82 percent of personal computer users in the country acquire software illegally most of the time, a new study on users’ behaviours and attitudes toward software piracy and intellectual property rights, has revealed.

If you are reading this and are yet to register your phone line(s), it may just be too late, because barring any extension, the SIM card registration exercise embarked upon by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, in conjunction with all the telecom operators in Nigeria, ends today.

A Nigerian new media outlet, the NaijaAgroNet has emerged winner of the 2011 edition of the Highway Africa conference which ended recently in the city of Cape Town, South Africa.

LAST weekend, the Minister of Communications & Technology, Mrs Omobola Johnson addressed a stakeholders’forum in Lagos. At the event, all the parastatals under her ministry, from NCC and NigComSat to NITDA were present.

Deputy Governor of Ebonyi State, Engineer Dave Umahi, last Thursday commissioned the latest Gloworld shop located in the state capital, Abakiliki. The shop is the first such outlet to be opened by any telecommunications company in the state.

Search giant Google has Tuesday, launched a new website that allows business owners in the country to register their businesses online.