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MRA launches FOI Act for mobile phones
MEDIA Rights Agenda (MRA) yesterday launched an application to enable mobile phone users to download the entire Freedom of Information Act 2011 from its website to their handsets in an easy-to-navigate format.
Named FOI App, the application...
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ICT needs N26.6b to boost Vision 20:2020, says minister
WITH about eight years left for Nigeria to meet the objectives of Vision 20:2020 goals, the Minister of Communications Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson, has said that the information and communications technology (ICT) sector would require about...
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Nigeria may lead Africa to one billion mobile subscription mark
WITH a forecast of over 152.09 million mobile subscriptions by the end of 2016, Nigeria is expected to lead Africa to its one billion mobile subscription mark.
Presently, Nigeria’s connected lines as at September 2011, according to the Nigerian...
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Airtel offers promo rate for international calls
AIRTEL Nigeria has introduced an attractive international call rate bundle offer.
According to the company, the offer is designed to help its pre-paid customers across the country increase their talk time with family, friends and business...
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Blackberry subscribers call for extension for service disruption
Lagos – The National Association of Telecom Subscribers (NATCOMS) has called on service providers to extend subscriptions for blackberry users who have been experiencing service disruption since Oct. 10.
Chief Deolu Ogunbanjo, President of...
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Firm blames BlackBerry network collapse on switch failure
TELECOM NEWS — Users of Blackberry Smart phone services around the world are still suffering from excruciating pain of connecting from their loved ones and disruption of businesses as Research In Motion, RIM, owners of the service are...
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Nigerian Communications Commission set for number portability
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), over the weekend, said it had appointed a consortium of three companies to implement the proposed number portability services which will allow Nigerian phone users move from one network to another without...
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Those who killed NITEL must be brought to book – Senate president say
ABUJA – Senate President David Mark has ,Tuesday, called for the prosecution of people who were responsible for the mismanagement of the Nigerian Telecommunications Limited, NITEL.
Mark who was apparently angry over the way and manner...
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Nigeria moves closer to Mobile Number Portability
A new regime in mobile telecommunications in Nigeria is set to unfold soon as the Nigerian Communications Commission is expected to announce the nation’s mobile phone number portability service provider.
Industry sources conversant with the...
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MTN Nigeria apologises to customers over hitches
“The telecoms giant reacts to complains of network hitches.”
Telecoms giant, MTN Nigeria, has apologised to its customers across the country over “some little hitches in accessing the network”.
Aliyu Musa, the North-West...
