How best to evolve policies and regulatory guidelines that will address the ICT concerns of the physically challenged and the elderly people in the society was the focus of a one -day national summit on “ICTs and Accessibility for Persons with Special Needs and the Elderly” organized by the telecom regulatory agency, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC .

APC by Schneider, a global leader in critical power and cooling services recently launched a field education programme even as it joined the Microsoft System Center Alliance to enhance and provide support for critical physical infrastructure monitoring and management through the integration of APC InfraStruXure Central with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007.

For the Minister of Information and Communications, Prof Dora Akunyili, one of the major concerns of her ministry is to see that the quantum leap achieved in telecom development in the country is sustained and surpassed in the years to come.

FRONTLINE PayTV operators, MultiChoice, has formally launched DStv Access, a 27 world-class channels with a considerable subscription cost for middle and low class pay Tv subscribers. This is as the operator, has hinted on a possible slash of its decoder acquisition cost, soonest, to lower the entry barrier and inspire a lot more people to join the DStv platform.

Activities of Internet fraudsters seem to be giving Nigeria’s internet stakeholders some sleepless night.
However, in a move to curb the disturbing menace, Nigeria’s telecom regulatory agency, the Nigerian Communication Commission, NCC and another internet related company, Digital Sense Africa, last week organised a one day forum to assess the dept of damage the fraudsters have done to the collective good of Nigeria’s economy and perhaps, proffer solutions to curtail their advancements.