. …Says it’s the reason for the high cost of services, as subscribers bear the brunt By Chris Ochayi & Oghenerukevwe Akporhonor, ABUJA The Federal Government has raised the alarm over activities of vandals on telecommunications infrastructure in the country, saying the ugly trend was responsible for the high cost of services charged subscribers by […]

By Emmanuel Elebeke The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC has just revealed that, the industry’s active data subscriber base dropped by 3.3 percent IN Q2, 2021, representing a loss of 4.76 million users. The report is its latest industry review for the quarter. It was  published on its website. Nigeria’s telecommunications industry is dominated by four […]

By Okoh Aihe THERE was suppressed excitement across the land last week. The country’s economy dealt a massive blow into depression by COVID-19 suddenly witnessed a renaissance, a stirring out of that dazed stupor into someplace under the sun, making some of us learn how to smile again. The news was so sudden that some […]

By Okoh Aihe THERE is a total lack of shame when the puissant political opportunists who superintend our lives claim credit for every minuscule strand of progress, appropriate credit for everything but the ugly. Soon and very soon they will claim credit for the rising and the setting of the sun except that such foolhardiness […]

Telecom operators in the country have grown the third generation (3G) and fourth generation (4G) base transceiver stations, BTS, to 53,460 in just five years. This was announced by the Executive Vice Chairman of Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Professor Umar Danbatta, while welcoming the new Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, Engr. Festus Daudu, on Tuesday.