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.