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Financial Health And Quality Of Service By Network Operators

Global UpfrontMay 21, 2025May 21, 20250

By Sonny Aragba-Akpore In March 2024, Mobile Network Operators (MNOS) lamented losses of revenue when services were negatively impacted as they suffered internet outage due

In Pursuit Of 70% Broadband Penetration

Global UpfrontMar 19, 2025March 19, 20250

By Sonny Aragba-Akpore Despite the rising depletion of data used by subscribers, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says there is nothing to worry about. It

Inadequate Power Supplies For Telecom Services And Others

Global UpfrontFeb 12, 2025February 12, 20250

By Sonny Aragba-Akpore By Wednesday December 11, 2024 the National electricity grid had recorded 12 collapses within the year, thus accounting for an average of

Playing Games With Telecom Tariff Hikes

Global UpfrontJan 22, 2025January 22, 20250

By Sonny Aragba-Akpore In what sounded like a death knell or an epilogue as we know it in literature, the Association of Licenced Telecoms Operators

NCC Finally Approves 50% Tariff Raise For Glo, MTN, Airtel, Others

Global UpfrontJan 20, 2025January 20, 20250

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has approved the request of telecommunications companies to raise tariff, capping it “at a maximum of 50 per cent of

CBN, NCC And DMBs On The N250b USSD Debts

Global UpfrontJan 2, 2025January 2, 20250

By Sonny Aragba-Akpore After over five years of bickerings on the debts owed by Money Deposit Banks (DMBs) for Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) platforms,

Nigeria: NCC, Starlink Tariff Feud Rattles Telecom Industry

Global UpfrontOct 16, 2024October 16, 20240

By Sonny Aragba-Akpore An imminent feud is underway between telecommunications regulator, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on one hand and Starlink and Mobile Network Operators (

Nigeria: Botched 5G Services And The Wi-Fi 6 Gamble

Global UpfrontOct 9, 2024October 9, 20240

By Sonny Aragba-Akpore When fully implemented, Fifth Generation (5G) technology and services will transform the telecommunications landscape in Nigeria like nothing else before it, Isa

Before Load Shedding By Telecoms Operators Begins

Global UpfrontSep 4, 2024September 4, 20240

By Sonny Aragba-Akpore Nigerians are commonly used to electricity power load shedding which strategically reduces or cuts off electricity supply to different consumers or areas

A Minister’s Tempest And Telecoms Survival

Global UpfrontAug 21, 2024August 21, 20240

By Sonny Aragba-Akpore The new “National Digital Economy and E-Government bill “ maybe an albatross described in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient