NIGCOMSAT-2A, 2B: $2bn satellites may trigger broadcast, broadband boom in 2028
By Prince Osuagwu, Hi-Tech EditorIf the timeline set by the Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited, NIGCOMSAT, for the deployment of its two new communications satellites remains on course, Nigeria’s broadcast and broadband sectors could be heading for a major capacity boom by 2028. That prospect received a major boost at the weekend after the Federal Executive […]
Keep my flock! Ndukwe charges Acting EVC, as he leaves office
He stood for a long time looking beyond the audience. Quite a few watched if the tears were going to drop. But Engr Ernest Ndukwe is a very strong and resolute man. He had spent ten years less two days at the NCC and in a few hours he would have spent his final moments at the imposing NCC building in Abuja.
Why Zain sold its business in Africa
ZAIN Group (Mobile Telecommunications Company of Kuwait ) may have decided to sell its Africa operations as a result of growing financial difficulties, if indications are anything to go by.
Microsoft shops for Nigerian ICT talents
In July 2010, the Imagine Cup, the world’s premiere student technology competition created by Microsoft will take place in Poland. Microsoft Nigeria is actively encouraging schools and students across Nigeria to compete for a place in the final.
Stakeholders rub minds as Okonkwo presides over broadband forum
The Chairman of ZoomMobile, Nigeria’s frontline indigenous telecommunications services provider, Sir Annie Okonkwo has been confirmed as the Chairperson for the 2010 Broadband forum organized by Titans of Tech.
Emotions as Ndukwe bows out of NCC
Few days to the completion of his two-term tenure as Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Engr. Ernest Ndukwe, there emotions in the Nigerian telecommunications industry even as he handed over to Engr. Stephen Bello, Executive Commissioner and most senior staff of the regulatory agency.
