Nigeria

Vodafone, despite recently issuing a new, more conservative and cost-saving focused investment strategy, has expressed a keen interest in investing in Nigeria's rapidly growing telecoms... 2008-11-21

News: According to This Day, Nigerian telecoms operator Globacom has stated it will be ready to launch its international submarine cable Glo-1 in March 2009. The operator said that... 2008-11-19

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has lifted an advertising ban it had placed on MTN Nigeria, the market leading mobile phone operator in the country. The ban was designed... 2008-11-04

Telkom South Africa , the majority shareholder of Multi-Links, one of Nigeria's many small CDMA operators, has announced plans to invest ZAR4.3bn (US$533mn) during 2009 in expanding... 2008-09-18

Etisalat Nigeria has formally announced that it will begin commercial services from October, according allAfrica.com. Etisalat will be the fifth GSM operator in a country that,... 2008-09-12

The chief executive of international mobile operator MTN has revealed the extent of the company's expansion ambitions to the Financial Times. Phuthuma Nhleko has said that the South... 2008-09-01

MTN Nigeria, the country's leading mobile service provider, has launched fixed-line services over a fibre-optic network in the city of Ibadan, Oyo state, according to local press... 2008-08-05

Starcomms, Nigeria's privately-owned CDMA network operator, has become the first telecoms company to list on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). The company sold 135.4mn shares... 2008-07-17

With 7.6mn net additions to the Nigerian mobile market in the six months ended June 2008, the country's total subscriber base reached 49.607mn, according to figures released by the... 2008-07-11

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has reportedly awarded a telecommunications operating licence to Nigerian Communications Satellite (NIGCOMSAT), a state-owned operator... 2008-05-15