Author: ITPulse

By Tosin Aribisala India’s big three operators— Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Reliance Jio – have, according to recent Indian news reports, asked the sector regulator to set up floor pricing for data services. The three carriers on the fierce rivalry that has recently brought price-cutting competition that has contributed to lowered ARPU for all the main operators blame this rather unusual proposal. The argument behind the proposal seems to be that none of the three carriers can voluntarily carry out tariff correction. The answer, it would seem, is floor pricing – a fixed lower limit on the price of a…

The United Kingdom has announced a range of partnerships with African countries that will support Nigerian leadership in setting an ambitious National Determined Contribution (NDC) to global emissions reduction targets. Specifically, it announced a £10m (over ₦4.7billion) UK Climate Finance Accelerator that will help Nigeria secure greater investments in green energy, increasing the availability of sustainable power and creating new jobs. Announcing the investment at the inaugural UK-Africa Investment Summit in London, British High Commissioner Catriona Laing, commented: “In the year the UK is set to host the UN climate summit, COP26, we put clean energy at the heart of…

Yesterday at its corporate head office in Lagos-Nigeria, Quickteller, a Pan-African integrated digital payment solution unveiled to the media a new Television commercial it tagged “Everything is Possible”. Unveiling the commercial, Olawale Akanbi, Group Head, Quickteller Marketing, noted that the new commercial demonstrates the importance of transacting on a platform that provides a vast number of services in the digital payment space. “It’s amazing to know that you can pay for almost anything on Quickteller. At Quickteller, we are committed to making all payments possible on our platform.  This is why we are continuously expanding the services available on Quickteller.…

Team Earth has emerged from the InterswitchSPAK 2.0 Innovation Challenge, which was organized to spark innovation among the youths, especially teenage students. Team Earth is a group of nine collaborated to identify a problem in the agricultural value chain in Nigeria leveraging technology. They were tasked with developing solutions to three salient socio-economic issues in the areas of Agriculture, the Electoral process and Financial inclusion. Team Earth, which was made up of nine SS2 students, proffered brilliant solutions to their given tasks by leveraging technology and were mentored by Paul Otu and Tolulope Adesokan and Opeyemi Adekugbe who are members…

Governors in Nigeria have agreed to work with the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, the Nigerian Communications Commission and other stakeholders in the telecom industry to resolve the Right of Way challenges.  The resolution was taken after a meeting between the governors, under the auspices of the Governors’ Forum, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami), FNCS, FBCS, FIIM, Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof Umar Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Kashifu Inuwa, Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency and Funke Opeke, Chairperson of the Presidential Committee on National Broadband Plan (2020-2025).…

After a pitch process that involved other creative agencies, Stanbic IBTC Holdings PLC, has selected BBDO West Africa as the Group’s new creative agency. The appointment takes effect immediately with BBDO taking responsibility for charting the creative course for the Stanbic IBTC brand. The creative agency is expected to employ a broad range of innovative strategies to create, plan and execute exceptional marketing campaigns for Stanbic IBTC Holdings and its subsidiaries. “It gives me great pleasure to formally welcome BBDO West Africa to Stanbic IBTC as the Group’s new creative agency. The pitch process was very transparent and highly competitive.…

Some Nigerians have applauded the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) for activating and implementing Emergency Communications Centre (ECC) project in 17 states, including Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital. These Nigerians, whose opinions were sampled by IT Pulse via telephone call and chat on Whatsapp, narrated how the activation and implementation of the ECC project last year have led to an increase in the security of lives and properties. For Opeyemi Agbeniyi, who narrated his personal experience using the ECC, suspected thieves entered their compound recently and were about moving away with some valuables, but were immediately apprehended as a result of a…

Olukayode Kolawole The future of e-commerce is both exhilarating and daunting for players in the sector, depending on how receptive they are to the dynamic nature of the sector. With the current outlook for 2020, the market is growing rapidly and there are changes that will help businesses grow while there are also new challenges that some businesses may possibly not keep up with. However, despite these challenges, there are definitely opportunities to look out for. For instance, according to Statista, the global e-commerce retail revenues are projected to grow to $6.54 trillion by 2023 as against the 2019 worldwide…

Globaldata, a technology and professional services company has identified 5G, digital brands and cryptocurrencies as the top trends that will shape consumer services in 2020. “Last year, GlobalData successfully predicted the crisis in 5G B2C commercial use cases, a new class of direct-to-consumer (D2C) content plays and the emergence of ‘raw broadband’ portfolios, allowing users to plug their own over-the-top (OTT) content into an over-arching carrier content management platform. Our predictions for 2020 once again underline the evolution of market disruption, with key prediction themes revolving around Internet of Things (IoT) leverage, artificial intelligence (AI) deployments, and 5G use cases,”…

Vincentas Grinius, the Chief Executive Officer of Heficed, an IP address infrastructure service provider, has highlighted the benefits that will accrue from the 200 million IPV4 addresses, which was recently released by the Department of Defence of the US government. Grinius explained that with the release of the200 million blocks entering the market, prices would decrease, and the availability of IPv4 would grow in the upcoming years. He noted that new release of IPv4 addresses will be sold in big and medium-sized blocks, and since the Department of Defence has a deadline, they are focusing on large buyers such as…