Over the past
week, Airtel Nigeria sent a text message to its users notifying them that its
blackberry data subscription will stop working on phones that are not
blackberry from the 3rd of December onwards.
Showing posts with label Telecoms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Telecoms. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Obama wasn’t aware that Merkel’s phone was being tapped – White House official
Posted by Olumide Samuel on 3:52 AM
The Wall
Street Journal has revealed that a White House official revealed to it that the
U.S. President Barack Obama didn’t have the information that German Chancellor
Angela Merkel’s cellphone was being tapped.
Monday, October 7, 2013
NCC plans to provide license for fixed broadband services
Posted by Olumide Samuel on 10:27 PM
At a news
conference, the Executive Vice President of the Nigerian Communications
Commission (NCC), Dr. Eugene Juwah, and the secretary general of the
Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization (CTO), Prof Tim Unwin revealed the
plans of NCC to license broadband services for regions and the accompanying
advantage.
Saturday, September 7, 2013
How Glo rescued Nigerians and gained a foothold
Posted by Olumide Samuel on 11:55 PM
When I
initially thought of writing this post, I didn’t know that Globacom just
celebrated its tenth year anniversary of operations in Nigeria.
Monday, September 2, 2013
Verizon agrees $130 billion deal with Vodafone
Posted by Olumide Samuel on 9:45 PM
American
telecommunication company and the largest wireless provider in the United
States , Verizon Wireless has agreed to buy Vodafone’s 45% stake in Verizon
making the telecoms company all American again.
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Airtel to offer free data on Nokia Asha phones
Posted by Olumide Samuel on 5:11 PM
Airtel Nigeria
has announced its partnership with Nokia that would see users of Nokia Asha phones
enjoy free data on WhatsApp and Facebook.
Posted in Smartphones, Telecoms
MTN Group reaches 200 million users
Posted by Olumide Samuel on 4:57 PM
MTN Group has
reached a milestone of 200 million users across the countries in which it
operates and has decided to invest heavily in education of countries in which
it has reached this milestone which are countries in Africa and the Middle
East.
Posted in Telecoms
Monday, August 19, 2013
Glo launches Bounce in Abuja
Posted by Olumide Samuel on 2:59 PM
Giant telecoms
company, Globacom limited has extended it Glo Bounce tariff to users in Abuja
especially students.
The tariff
which Glo has made particularly for students and youth was launched at the
Sheraton Hotels on Sunday. Glo hopes that this tariff will increase the
connectivity between students and build a large base of youths on its network.
Thursday, August 1, 2013
Mobile Number Portability has brought mixed fortunes for Telecom Companies
Posted by Olumide Samuel on 1:57 PM
According
to statistics released by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) after
100 days of the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) regime, telecoms operators have
performed differently in the new regime.
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
SIM card flaw could make 500 million users vulnerable
Posted by Olumide Samuel on 12:37 PM
Berlin’s
security research labs with experiments carried out with selected SIM cards
have estimated that about 500 million users of mobile phones are at risk due to
a flaw that was discovered in the SIM cards.
Posted in Smartphones, Telecoms
Monday, July 8, 2013
NCC wants list of deactivated SIM cards from network operators
Posted by Olumide Samuel on 5:37 PM
Due to the
directives of the Nigerian Communications Commission to deactivate subscriber
identification module (SIM) cards which remains unregistered as at July 1,
2013, it has summoned the major players MTN, Glo, Airtel, and Etisalat to
release the list of their unregistered SIM cards.
Posted in Telecoms
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