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…
INDUSTRY body, the Global System for Mobile Communication Association (GSMA), six African telcos and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) said they will pilot $40 (about N55,000) entry-level fourth generation (4G) smartphones in Nigeria and other five African countries this year. This initiative is coming as report showed that some 710 million Africans live close to a…
CMC Connect LLP has officially unveiled the 2026 edition of its flagship industry initiative, Crisis Management Advocacy Month, scheduled to hold throughout March 2026. Themed “Crisis Management in the AI Milieu: New Threats, Smarter Responses”. The 2026 edition will examine how Artificial Intelligence is fundamentally reshaping crisis communication, institutional response systems, governance frameworks, and reputational…
Nigeria’s Project BRIDGE has secured a $100million investment from the Board of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and another a €22 million grant from European Union Digital Economy Package of €45 million. Minister of Communication, Innovation and Digital Economy, Dr Bosun Tijani, disclosed this via his X handle @bosuntijani. He wrote: “As…
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…
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…
Despite the hype about the almost limitless possibilities of the fifth generation (5G) technology adoption, its coverage and use have remained dismally low at three per cent in Nigeria and just four per cent in low-income countries. This has further questioned the rush by countries to deploy the technology which is costly in terms of…
MTN Nigeria has unveiled its much-anticipated Festive campaign, YelloTide, a nationwide celebration aimed at spreading joy, kindness, and connection across the country. This is coming after days of online conversations and speculation. The campaign officially kicks off this week, following a three-day teaser that had Nigerians across social media guessing what MTN had up its…
The telecom industry maintained strong performance through the third quarter (Q3) of 2025, with active voice subscriptions rising to 173.54 million in September, from 171.57 million it was in August, latest industry stats from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has shown. The data also showed that teledensity, which represents the number of active telephone lines…
