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A week after the financial bids for Nigeria's beleaguered incumbent operator, Nitel, were announced, and a consortium known as New Generation Telecom emerged as the preferred bidder,...
2010-02-23Industry
Speaking at a lecture in Lagos, Ernest Ndukwe, vice-chairman of the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC), has highlighted the importance of regulatory independence for ensuring...
2010-02-18Companies
Investors in Bharti Airtel are expressing concern over Bharti's latest plan to invest in Africa by acquiring Zain's Africa assets, excluding Sudan and Morocco. According to Bloomberg,...
2010-02-16Industry
2010 seems to be shaping up to be a year of SIM registration in African mobile markets. 2009 was in some ways expected to see many SIM registration campaigns followed through, but...
2010-01-04Companies
Visafone, which is the leading CDMA mobile operator in Nigeria, has announced that its network is open market handset (OMH) compliant, reports AllAfrica. This means that it has met...
2009-12-18Companies
The Nigerian Communications Commission's (NCC) executive vice-chairman Ernest Ndukwe has said the regulator has no plans to give licences to new telecoms operators. With a fifth GSM...
2009-10-27Companies
Public hearings have been scheduled for October 2009 on the issue of mobile interconnection fees, reports Reuters. The parliamentary committee for communications is floating a proposal...
2009-09-16Companies
With both the reprivatisation of Nitel and the renewed WiMAX spectrum licence tender immediately on the horizon, there is a lot of focus on Nigeria's telecoms market, and its regulator...
2009-09-08
