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  By Kester Omu The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), yesterday assured telecommunications subscribers across Nigeria of quality of service using the extant key performance indicators. The Executive Vice-Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Umar Danbatta gave the assurance at the Arewa House in a paper titled Evaluating The Framework for Measuring the Quality of Service Delivery in the Public Sector, which was presented on his behalf by Ubale Maska, NCC’s Executive Commissioner Technical Services, at the National Stakeholders’ Conference on Public Service Delivery in Nigeria. “As the telecom regulator in Nigeria, we are giving you our assurance that we will continue…

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  By Martin Ekpeke The GSMA, the global body that represents of mobile operators worldwide has claimed that the mobile sector in Africa is over-taxed, despite the fact that mobile connectivity is a critical enabler of economic and social development. GSMA stated this in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania during the Mobile 360 Event, while announcing its findings from its latest report, ‘Taxing Mobile Connectivity in Sub-Saharan Africa: A review of mobile sector taxation and its impact on digital inclusion’. “Mobile connectivity is a critical enabler of economic and social development, but in many countries, particularly developing countries, the mobile sector…

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  There are strong indications that the new management of hitherto Etisalat has approved a new name for the telecom company, and would henceforth be called 9Mobile. The name change might be unconnected with the three weeks ultimatum given to Etisalat by the parent company in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates that withdraw from the company as a result of Etisalat indebtedness to a consortium of local banks in Nigeria. Though no official statement from the new management of Etisalat, Chain Reactions, the Telco Public Relations consultant confirmed the development, saying Etisalat hope to make a public announcement soon.…

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The Nigeria Computer Society 13th International Conference, scheduled to hold between 18-20th of July 2017 in Abuja will focus mainly on technology innovations for sustainable development in Nigeria; a statement signed by Adesola Aderounmu, NCS President has said. According to NCS, the theme of this year Conference is “Information Technology Innovation for Sustainable Development”. IT industry players, academics, researchers and thought leaders have been invited to speak, engage and proffer solutions based on this theme and associated sub-themes. NCS said it decided to stay focus on innovations because strategic IT innovations open up more opportunities and provide novel, smart…

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  Dmitry Deniskin is the Director of Emerging Markets at HUB8, global web hosting brand. In this interaction with ITPulse, he speaks on the company’s plan to partner Nigerian companies, especially the Small & Medium Enterprises to drive the growth of their businesses online.  Can you briefly tell us about HUB8 and what interests you about the Nigerian Internet market? HUB8 is a global web hosting brand. We’re focused on emerging markets in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We have four main products at HUB8 – web hosting, domain registration, visual website builder, and powerful WordPress themes. Almost all of…

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  For its return after years of wilderness, Nokia intends not making the same mistakes. What will it take to recapture the glory days? In 2014, on the very day Microsoft announced it was discontinuing Nokia, Brand Equity’s Most Trusted Brands survey hit the stands with the Finnish mobile brand at No 2. Its performance on a day when the brand was being taken to the proverbial woodshed to be shot in the head, spawned an entire week’s worth of online snark. Mainly from people whose last brush with Nokia was a good three or four mobile phones ago. But…

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  The Executive Vice-Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta says the Telecom Consumer Parliament is a reiteration of the Commission’s commitment to consumer empowerment and protection through continuous improvement of qualitative, universal and affordable services. The former University Lecturer stated at the 80th Edition of the Telecom Consumer Parliament (TCP) at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja. Danbatta, who was represented by Mr. Sunday Dare, Executive Commissioner, Stakeholder Management at NCC, also recalled that the basis for the institutionalization of the TCP, is to get a wider consultative engagement of consumers to identify challenges, needs and…

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  By Kester Omu Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country is among four countries in Sub-Saharan Africa that will account for half of the 115 million new subscribers expected in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2020, the GSMA in its new report titled, ‘The Mobile Economy: Sub-Saharan Africa 2017’ has disclosed. The other three countries, where subscriber growth is expected to be concentrated in large numbers are the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ethiopia and Tanzania. The new report, published  at the GSMA Mobile 360 event in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, predicted that more than half a billion people across Sub-Saharan Africa will…

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  By Martin Ekpeke A new study by the GSMA, a global body represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide, uniting nearly 800 operators with more than 300 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem has disclosed that mobile technologies and services generated $110 billion of economic value in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2016. The report titled, ‘The Mobile Economy: Sub-Saharan Africa 2017’ noted that mobile technologies is driving the region’s economy and building a digital Africa. It added that the $110 billion is equivalent to 7.7 per cent of regional GDP and the figure expected to grow to $142 billion, representing…

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  The automobile industry is highly technical, with technology and innovation at the forefront. The irony, however, is that, a lot of the auto mechanics relied upon to fix these cars are not upgrading their skills, as many of them often attempt to guess what the problem is, instead of diagnosing the car first. I was recently with Etop Ikpe, Chief Executive Officer, Cars45.com, a platform that allows used vehicle owners to evaluate, buy and sell their cars in 45 minutes. It is a Startup, seeking to sanitize the used car industry and we talked at length about this. Etop…

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