Author: ITPulse

  By Kester Omu The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has asked the stakeholders, especially the Consumer Protection Council (CPC) to collaborate in resolving some of the disputes that usually arise between telecom providers and the consumers. The Director, Consumer Affairs Bureau at NCC, Abdullahi I. Maikano, who made the call in his opening remark at the 4th Quarter Industry Consumer Advisory Forum (ICAF) 2017 organized by NCC with the theme ‘Telecom Dispute Resolution And Redress Mechanism’, believes such collaboration will further protect the interests of the telecoms consumers, who sometimes feel cheated by the service providers. “To empower the consumer…

  Any nation that wishes to advance technologically and play big, in the games of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, AI, must invest significantly in Education and make it possible for more students to take up Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, STEM, subjects. This is exactly what Russ Fisher-Ives, Co-Founder and his fellow Co-Founders are doing, with RoboRaves International. I recently had a chat with Russ on his thoughts on the future of Robotics in Africa. Russ stated that, Robotics brings technology for the 21st Century. “As we move to make our machines smaller, so, they run more efficiently, they use…

  By Moses Braimoh Many business organisations and public institutions are faced one way or the other with challenges of their corporation email been compromised. This to a large extent has brought loss of businesses or embarrassment. Those who have not been able to successfully manage it by being on top of the situation are those whose knowledge and technology partnership need to be upgraded. In the technology parlance, the Business e-mail compromise (BEC) is when an attacker hacks into a corporate e-mail account and impersonates the real owner to defraud the company, its customers, partners, and/or employees into sending…

  By Martin Ekpeke The Chief Technical Officer of Medallion Communications Limited, Mr. Krishnan Ranganath has disclosed that the converged services being deployed by Medallion has been able to address infrastructure challenges in the Nigeria’s telecom industry, where teledencity is said to be above 100 percent with over 137 million active mobile phone users. Krishnan made this disclosure last week in Lagos at this year’s West Africa Convergence Conference, with the theme: ‘Convergence & the New Deals: – Entrepreneurship & Employability’, and was organised by Knowhow Media International. According to Krishnan, Medallion knew a long time ago that the convergence…

Search engine giant, Google has launched a brand new app that would help Android users understand and control their mobile data to get the most out of their data plans and making them to save up to 30 per cent of their data. Tagged ‘Datally’, the app was developed to help solve one of the biggest concerns of smartphone users around the world, and especially in Nigeria – worries about data usage. It works on all smartphones running Android 5.0 (Lollipop) and higher, and is available for download on the  Google Play Store  globally, today. “During extensive user research…

  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has granted a Commercial Super-Agent license to Interswitch Financial Inclusion Services (IFIS), a subsidiary of Interswitch Group. The license was given to them after fulfilling all Approval-in-Principle requirements and has a business mandate to grow an active Agent Network of 150,000 by 2020. Trading as Quickteller Paypoint. IFIS aims to increase the availability of digital financial services in financially-excluded locations in Nigeria from 44per cent to over 70 per cent in five years. Quickteller Paypoint has now crossed a symbolic milestone by breaking the 10,000 activated agent mark. With this feat, Quickteller Paypoint…

  Nigeria’s 4G/LTE broadband operator, ntel has obtained the Nigerian Communications Commission’s approval to commence a national roaming field trial with 9Mobile over a two-month period. The initiative will provide fuller coverage to ntel’s subscribers and position the company as a network offering 4G/LTE as well as 3G and 2G services. According to ntel, the agreement will enable ntel’s customers to make calls on 9Mobile’s network using any 2G or 3G handset within the specified trial zone. Commenting on the commencement of the national roaming trial, Ernest Akinlola, ntel’s CEO said “This agreement is a significant step in the right…

  By Martin Ekpeke The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has given the assurance that Nigeria will meet and even surpass the 30 per cent target of broadband penetration target by 2018, given its commitment to the facilitation of broadband penetration, enshrined in its its 8-Point Agenda, unveiled three years ago. The Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta gave the assurance in his remark at the ongoing  27TH Afrinic Meeting (AFRINIC-27), with the themed “Taking the African Internet to the Next Level through Policy, Collaboration and Education” in Lagos. “The  NCC recognizes its prime responsibility in the actualization of…

  Smile Communications has announced a three months bonus offering to its customers as part of efforts to make them have a fun filled holiday season celebration. The mouth watering offer includes 10GB plus SMiFi with 1GB FREE data and 100% bonus on recharge for 3 months, and is available to new and existing customers across all segments. It promises to give everyone the opportunity to enjoy SuperFast reliable mobile broadband and SuperClear voice calls. Explaining the offering, the Head, Brands and Communications at Smile Nigeria, Mr. Lotanna Anajemba said the offer is designed to lower the entry barrier and…

  Google has detected an app ‘Tizi’, which has been stealing information from call records and also from social media apps like Facebook, WhatsApp, and also take pictures from mobile phones without even displaying them on screen of the device. “Tizi is a fully featured backdoor that installs spyware to steal sensitive data from popular social media applications. The Google Play Protect security team discovered this family in September 2017 when device scans found an app with rooting capabilities that exploited old vulnerabilities,” a post on Google security blog said. The company has removed the app from Play Store, notified…