Author: ITPulse

The United Nations Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development has advocated for a deliberate building of an inclusive post-COVID digital future with impactful partnerships with various stakeholders, which will ultimately, make the best use of broadband Internet. The Commissioners of the Commission, who made this advocacy, noted that there is a need for innovative financing mechanisms, impactful partnerships, bold decision-making and holistic approaches to capacity and content development to make the best use of broadband Internet. Gathering at their spring annual session, more than 50 commissioners, who comprise government leaders, heads of international organizations and private companies, civil society and academia, discussed…

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami has highlighted some of the progress made so far in the implementation of the Nigerian National Broadband Plan 2020-2025. The Minister, who gave the highlights yesterday at a virtual structured engagement with key stakeholders in the Nigerian Telecom & ICT sector on the new national broadband plan 2020 – 2025, organized by the Association of Telecom Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), noted that the journey is encouraging with significant progress made in realizing some of the targets set in the new Broadband Plan. He said though, most of the challenges are…

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has given reasons why as part of its regulatory roles, it has always advocated for what it described as responsible use of the Internet. According to the telecom regulator, its advocacy for the responsible use of the technologies, especially the Internet is hinged on its drive to help address the country’s socio-economic, cultural and national security challenges. Giving a goodwill message at the ‘Quarterly Public Lecture of the National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO) yesterday, the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, noted that aside from driving ubiquitous access to telecoms services, NCC…

The Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) Mal. Kashifu Inuwa has asserted that broadband access should not be a luxury, but a necessity for economic and social development, stressing that broadband offers unprecedented opportunities for economic growth by providing access to information, connecting people to business and opening new markets. Mal. Inuwa, who was speaking at a virtual structured engagement with key stakeholders in the Nigerian Telecom & ICT sector on the new national broadband plan 2020 – 2025, yesterday, also asserted that real broadband must deliver data download speeds across Nigeria, with a minimum of 25Mbps…

Nigeria’s Plentywaka has sealed a partnership deal with Libra Motors Limited, a transportation company, with the sole aim of simplifying interstate traveling experience across Nigeria. The partnership deal will allow the two companies to combine technology and marketing in order to bring transport into one simple product, the Plentywaka mobile app. Announcing the partnership, Mr. Johnny Ena, Co-Founder, and President of Plentywaka, noted that the partnership will make the travel experience seamless for Nigerians. “The partnership with Libra Motors is great for our users especially at this time where a lot of Nigerians are traveling home for the Easter season.…

The Association of Telecom Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), today called on the private sector players in the country’s Information and Communications Technology industry to complement the government’s efforts in order to achieve the 70 percent broadband penetration target. The President of ATCON, Engr Ikechukwu Nnamani, who made the call at a virtual structured engagement with key stakeholders in the Nigerian Telecom & ICT sector on the new national broadband plan 2020 – 2025, said the call becomes necessary owing to the visible benefits of broadband, especially in a digital economy, which is vigorously being pursued by the federal government. “With…

The ASUS ZenBook Flip 13 UX363EA is set to be released commercially in weeks, but a firsthand review of the laptop, which comes with Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 and Intel® Core™ i5-1135G7 processor, indicates that unlike other laptops in its class, the features embedded in the device makes incredible. Lightweight, sleek and fully connectable, the ASUS ZenBook Flip 13 UX363EA comes ready for the interest to artists and graphic designers as it comes with FHD OLED NanoEdge touchscreen, 178° wide viewing angle with 100% DCI-P3 color gamut, 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio; 0.2ms response time and 70% less harmful blue light than normal…

Want to achieve quick time-to-value on your digital transformation efforts while still building toward greater future capabilities? This is what you need to know. Organisations have experienced immense disruption over the past year. Many have had to reinvent their operating models, their product or service offerings and, in some cases, even their entire business model. In the face of such disruption, there is no single solution for every businesses’ ills. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on organisations was immediate and in many respects irreversible. As lockdowns confined office workers to their homes, organisations suddenly needed the agility to enable…

In a bid to speedily extend its fibre roll out to the South-East and South-South regions of Nigeria, Galaxy Backbone has partnered Interra Networks to ensure that Small Businesses and State Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies across the two regions can benefit from its service. Thus, the federal government-owned company is preparing the Staff of Interra Networks, a Network Communications and services company to help in selling GBB services across that region, by organising a One-day training that will help equip the Staff on the GBB Digital Services that are specific to Public sector companies and to Small & Medium…

Global connectivity solution provider, Ericsson has launched a new network programmability tool, called 5G Core Policy Studio. The tool enables communications service providers (CSPs) to more easily capture 5G revenue through offering differentiation. Also, the tool, which reduces complexity in network policy management handles the central management of all core network policies and is fully integrated with Ericsson’s dual-mode 5G Core, delivering up to 70 percent savings in policy configuration operational expenditures.  Speaking on how the tool works, Monica Zethzon, Head of Solution Area Cloud Packet Core, Ericsson, says: “Working at the core of 5G evolution, we see that 5G is…