A consumer rights group, Association of Telephone, Cable Tv, and Internet Subscribers of Nigeria (ATCIS-Nigeria) has urged the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and telecom operators to do more to improve the end user experience of telecom services. Its President, Dr Sina Bilesanmi, who spoke during an occasion to mark this year’s World Consumer Rights Day…
African carriers have come under growing pressure as commoditisation, digitisation and intensified competition are reshaping the industry faster than the dot‑com era, PwC report has noted. This accelerating change across the industry is a clear signal that reinvention can’t wait, report, entitled: ‘Reinventing Telecoms: Beyond the Buzzwords’, noted. The report said across the continent, leading…
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has called on interested industry stakeholders to make written submissions to the Commission on the ongoing review of the National Telecommunications Policy (NTP) 2000, which consultation paper has been published on the Commission’s website. It has set Friday, March 20, 2026, as the deadline for all submissions from stakeholders to…
The Nigerian government has halted ongoing process by Africa’s largest carrier, MTN Group, to acquire the largest tower company on the continent, HIS Towers. The Minister of Communications, Innovation & Digital Economy, Dr. Bosun Tijani, in a statement, stopped the process. The TowerCo has a portfolio of over 30,000 towers across several African markets, including…
Telecom subscribers in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), have been hit by poor quality of service (QoS) in the city which is the seat of government. While the current trivial of the subscribers have been blamed on the activities of the National Oil and Gas Suppliers Association (NOGASA), which disrupted diesel supplies to sites…
Since the liberalisation in 2001, Nigeria’s telecom industry has created more than 500,000 jobs, transformed connectivity, and enabled economic growth, the sector regulator, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), said Tuesday. In spite of this success story, the sector is heavily plagued with the dearth of requisite skilled manpower that could reverse the gain, the regulator, warned….
In spite of challenges, global telecoms industry revenue rose 4.3 per cent in 2023 to hit $1.1 trillion by 2028– even as Fifth Generation (5G) subscriptions are projected to quadruple by that year. PwC, in its ‘Global Telecoms Outlook’, said global telecoms revenue is projected to rise at a Compound Annual Growth rate (CAGR) of…
Last year, Nigeria’s telecom sector suffered over 50,000 fiber cuts across the country with ripple effects on service quality and huge financial losses to the mobile network operators (MNOs) via remediation and restoration. Of these cuts, 30,000 were blamed on federal and state road construction activities, telecom sector regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has…
A 50 per cent tariff hike in end user tariffs of telecom services in Nigeria will spur business expansion, potentially reducing poverty levels in Africa’s most populous nation, Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA), has said. Its head of sub-Saharan Africa, Angela Wamola, who spoke during a virtual press conference, said private capital will…
