A group of ex-Nokia employees who quit over the company’s decision to abandon the planned MeeGo operating system in favour of Windows plan to launch their own smartphone next year, their start-up said on Wednesday.

Barely two weeks after telecom industry stakeholders sharply disagreed with the management of NIGCOMSAT over the relevance of a bill designed to make the government-owned satellite company a corporation, more reactions and questions have continued to greet the bill which keen observers argued is antithetical to telecom deregulation.

Etisalat Nigeria has introduced a flexible bundle package called EasyFlex that allows users to browse, text and make calls to any network without restrictions. The new product is an all-in-one plan which comes with four variants including Flex N1000, Flex N700, Flex N500 and Flex N300.

The Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) has concluded plans to host Nigeria’s Telecoms Executives and Regulator Forum 2012.

Only those in government, and the few who have business with government (relative to the rest of the population) would know that apart from the new Government House built by the Akpabio administration in Uyo, the state capital, a brand new governor’s office was being added to the landscape.