Author: ITPulse

  By Martin Ekpeke The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof Umar Garba Danbatta, has highlighted what he described as Nigeria’s interdependent elements of the digital transformation processes. We have been paying attention to 5 interdependent elements of the digital transformation processes: enabling policies and institutions, human capital, applied ICT industry, communications infrastructure ICT applications and institutional change The Nigeria’s telecom regulator boss, who spoke at a panel session of the just concluded 2018 World Mobile Congress in Barcelona, Spain, named the processes as enabling policies and institutions, human capital, applied ICT industry, communications infrastructure ICT…

  As part of its commitment to ensuring the complete integrity of its products and protection for customers, Kaspersky Lab has extended its successful bug bounty program to include rewards of up to $100,000 for the discovery and responsible disclosure of severe vulnerabilities in some of its leading products. The extension, which is a 20-fold increase on existing reward is also an effort of the cybersecurity company to ensure the complete integrity of its products and protection for customers. Commenting on the increase in the bug bounty rewards, Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of Kaspersky Lab, said “Finding and fixing bugs is…

  By Kester Omu The Lagos State Government has partnered Nigeria’s leading digital payment gateway, Interswitch to actualize the extensive adoption of electronic channels in the payment of taxes, levies and other government payments. The Governor of the state, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode noted that the choice of Interswitch was necessitated largely to the fact that  the company has proven to be at the forefront of efficient and secure public sector payments and collections at both National and State levels. “We are confident in the ability of Interswitch to provide strong support and the state-of-the-art payment infrastructure, comparable to such obtainable…

  By Martin Ekpeke As a result of increased demand for data services, key players in the African telecom and broadband infrastructure are jostling for mergers, acquisitions, IPOs, investment and financing activity, news provider, TMT Finance report. This is even as an urgent requirement for new investment into telecom and broadband infrastructure in Africa is driving a fresh flurry of deal activity across the continent. According to Joseph d’Arrast, EMEA Editor, TMT Finance, the continent’s growth in the digital economy and the rising demand for data is helping to boost investor confidence in major broadband projects, of which there are…

Connectivity and data center solutions company, MainOne has adduced reasons why it provided internet connectivity to participants at the one-week long Social Media Week, held in Lagos last week. Mainone said, as the exclusive technology partner it delivers true value to the organizers and event guests, adding that it designed and installed an advanced managed Wi-Fi solution at the event venue, providing up to 1Gbps data capacity unhindered and free to users throughout the facility and for dedicated livestreaming of the event. Attendees at the event leveraged MainOne’s unlimited access to the Internet during the event and took advantage of…

The Nigeria Information Technology Reporters’ Association (NITRA) will this Friday host the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of ntel, Mr. Ernest Akinlola, in the March edition of her monthly interactive programme with ICT companies’ CEOs tagged ‘Breakfast With The CEO.’ The breakfast meeting would afford Akintola, who has been described as a well-educated, widely-travelled and vastly experienced in the field of telecommunications, to brief the ICT media ecosystem the plans and inspirations of ntel, touted as Nigeria’s most revolutionary telecommunications company which provides 4G LTE Advanced network that delivers superfast call-connect times, crystal clear Voice over LTE and extraordinarily high…

  By Martin Ekpeke One of the challenges most organizations, especially the medium enterprises contend with, is the lack of automated and reliable processes, designed to monitor and control their distribution network effectively, thus, losing a large chunk of their revenue. As a matter of fact, many organizations in the emerging markets, which today, boast of thousands of distributors, millions of outlets and billions of potential transactions daily do not have a product movement reporting and analysis process in place. This, industry watchers and analysts, believe is partly responsible for the huge number of collapsed enterprises. But, it does appear…

  In a bid to expand the deployment of broadband across Nigeria, the country’s telecom regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has decided to pursue the release of a 60-gigahertz (Ghz) spectrum band from the National Frequency Management Commission (NFMC). The Commission believes that the release of the spectrum will help address the continued demand by operators and data user for ubiquitous broadband services. Speaking in Lagos at a stakeholder forum, Director of Spectrum Administration, Austine Nwaulune, explained that the 60-gigahertz (Ghz) spectrum band would ease the pressure on currently utilised spectrum resources, and is desirable for applications that require…

  ZTE Corporation, a global telecommunications equipment has partnered Airtel Nigeria, to rollout 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) in Ibadan, Oyo State, South West Nigeria. The rollout, according to Danny Zhang, Chief Executive Officer of ZTE Nigeria Limited, will ensure a best in class deployment of 4G in Ibadan in line with its global best practices and assured that residents of Ibadan will enjoy a seamless and joyous mobile Internet experience courtesy of Airtel and ZTE. He further noted that Airtel’s 4G deployment in Ibadan will help drive economic growth in the Pacesetter State. Also commenting, SegunOgunsanya, Chief Executive Officer…

Lagos,the fastest growing city in Africa is set to host the biggest gathering of technology, finance and entertainment enthusiasts at the prestigious Finance Mobile & Entertainment Summit (FMES) 2018. This event is set to hold at the prestigious Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos, on Thursday March 22, 2018. With the Theme, “Leveraging Mobile Entertainment Financing for National Development”, FMES 2018 will focus on how to advance Nigeria’s economy, using entertainment and the potential of digital tools powered by widespread availability of broadband internet. Speaking to newsmen in Lagos, Don Pedro Aganbi, Managing Consultant, TechTV, organizer of the event, noted…