Author: ITPulse

Yesterday, Nigeria’s submarine cable owner, MainOne announced a partnership deal with Facebook that will the two companies putting up a metro fiber infrastructure project in two states of Nigeria’s Ogun and Edo. What this means is that, the project, which is part of Facebook’s effort to connect more people to broadband internet in Nigeria will provide connectivity to more than 1,000,000 people in Benin City, Abeokuta, Sagamu and 10 other towns by connecting mobile operators’ base stations, Internet Service providers, Points of presence (POPs), and public locations including schools and hospitals. In a statement, the partnership will leverage MainOne’s strength…

  A Mobile Economy report by the GSMA has revealed that the global mobile industry will experience 15 percent growth of the 5G network by 2025, attributing the growth to a number of 5G network launches with compatible devices. The report, which was published at the 2019 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, also reveals that a further 16 major markets worldwide will switch on commercial 5G networks this year, following on from the first 5G launches in South Korea and the US in 2018. “The arrival of 5G forms a major part of the world’s move towards an era of…

By Jimi Falaiye Cybercrime is big business and hackers are continually looking for new attack vectors. SophosLabs team sees 400,000 new malicious samples every day; this does not mean 400,000 programmers writing code. It means heavily automated systems. The result is bespoke malware – a virus written just for you. With that reality, the best line of defense is to use a multi-layered security strategy to work to protect organisations against both known and unknown threats. The best endpoint technologies will protect organisations against the majority of malware and threats impacting their organisation. But as the threat landscape evolves and…

  Nigeria’s CWG Plc has disclosed that as a company that enables growth, it plays its role in the country’s Oil & Gas industry by bringing to the table the technological needs of each player in the sector, especially in the maintenance of technical equipment, which it does leveraging information technology. The Founder and Executive Vice Chairman of CWG, Mr. Austin Okere, disclosed this while responding to interview questions by Thecable in Abuja during Nigeria International Petroleum Summit. According to Okere, CWG Plc, touted as the largest system integration company in Nigeria works closely with the oil companies, providing managed…

  The Nigerian Communications Commission has inaugurated an interdepartmental working group, whose sole aim will be to combat the electronic financial fraud in Nigeria using telecom platforms. The Committee, according to Mr. Sunday Dare, NCC’s Executive Commissioner for Stakeholder Management, will articulate concrete responses to combat the use of telecom platforms to commit financial frauds. In a Facebook post, NCC stated that the Committee, which is a recommendation from a successful stakeholders forum on electronic financial fraud it held recently, will also work to produce the Commission’s position to address the telecom aspects of the national response to electronic financial…

  The Association of Licenced Telecom Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) has clarified the purported report that it had a face-off with the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), with regards to taxes charged on telecom masts in the country. ALTON said the report in the media is misleading as it did not reflect the true position of the meeting it had with the management of NCAA on Tuesday, 12th February 2019 at the Aviation House, Ikeja, Lagos.  “There was no face-off between NCAA and ALTON and its members, though we need clarification on the charges and this led to the agreement…

  The telecommunication industry is the best customer centric sector, where issues pertaining to subscribers are taking very seriously by both the operators and the regulator, the Association of Licensed Telecom Operators of Nigeria says. This is coming from the perception that most of the regulatory bodies in Nigeria have left their regulatory functions and now turn to revenue generating bodies, thus, multiple taxation and regulation on the telecom industry. “Despite all challenges, there has not for once be an outage compare to other sectors, where you are put on estimated bills and inconsistence in flight schedules that has made…

  A new report by the GSMA’s 2019 Mobile Gender Gap has revealed that 80percent of women in low and middle income countries, represented 250 million have become connected to mobile devices since 2014, giving more than half of them access to the Internet. The report, which also predicted a $140 billion commercial opportunity for the mobile industry over the next 5 years as a result of the gradual closure of the mobile gender gap, however disclosed that despite the growth in connectivity, the gender gap in mobile ownership is not closing. It argues that women remain 10 per cent…

Ericsson has further strengthened its 5G platform with a broad range of product launch, which include radio access and transport areas, as well as service orchestration, making the platform more dynamic and flexible, enabling service providers to smoothly evolve their networks and deploy 5G at scale. “We have further strengthened our 5G platform with a broad range of product launches, adding to previous introductions such as the unique Ericsson Spectrum Sharing, to facilitate an efficient, flexible and smooth evolution to 5G networks. Building upon an early focus on IoT, Ericsson’s 5G Platform now also serves as the most complete platform…

  The Director-General of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Engr. Aliyu Aziz has rolled out why it was important to launch the new digital identity ecosystem in Nigeria. The DG, while making a presentation in Abuja at the January, 2019 lunch time reform seminar organised by the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR), explained that the new digital identity ecosystem facilitates the collection of citizens’ biometric data nationwide within the shortest time possible. “The purpose of the ecosystem is to leverage existing capabilities and enrolment facilities of government agencies, partners and private sector organisations in Nigeria, as opposed to…