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Latest Telecoms News from Nigeria
Aircom Assisting NSN in African Network Optimisation
Aircom says it has been selected by Nokia Siemens Networks to provide mobile network planning consultancy, to help improve network quality for mobile operators in Nigeria and South Africa....
Related Tags: aircom-international, nokia-siemens-networks, testing
Zain Outsources Management of Nigerian Fiber Backbone Network
Zain Nigeria has announced that it recently signed a managed services and care contract with Nokia Siemens Networks, which came into effect in the past few days. The contract covers the network operator's fiber backbone network, not the mobile network....
Related Tags: zain, nokia-siemens-network
Nigerian Operators Blocked from Buying NITEL Mobile Assets
The Nigerian government has decided that the country's GSM network operators will not be allowed to buy the mobile assets of state-owned NITEL when it is eventually privatised. ...
Nigerian Tower Operator Secures World Bank Funding to Expand Network
Helios Towers Nigeria (HTN) has secured a US$100 million investment from the World Bank's IFC as part of a US$250 million capital injection that will help the company increase its network to 2,000 sites nationwide....
Related Tags: ifc, towers, helios-towers, play
Nigerian Telecoms Investment Topped $18 Billion Over 8 Years
Telecoms investment in Nigeria has exceeded US$18 billion over the past eight years, the Nigerian Communications Commission has said....
Related Tags: nigerian-communications-commission, ncc, broadband
Complexity of Nigeria's NITEL deal causes delay in sale
The deadline for bids for Nigerian telecoms incumbent, NITEL, has been pushed back from today to the end of October....
MTN Nigeria Stretches Market Lead as Glo Consolidates 2nd Place
Nigerian regulator the NCC has released statistics for the second quarter of 2009, revealing that the total customer base stood at 66.42m at the end of June....
Related Tags: ncc, mtn, glo-mobile, zain, visafone, base
Thirteen Companies Bid for Nigerian Operator
Nigeria's government says that a total of thirteen companies have submitted bids to buy a 75 percent stake in the dominant landline operator, NITEL....
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Harris Stratex Networks Builds Build Network Operations Center in Nigeria
Zain's Nigerian network has commissioned Harris Stratex Networks to build a new network operations center (NOC) in Lagos. The NOC, which Zain commissioned in July, is part of a full, turnkey project completed by Harris Stratex,...
Related Tags: zain, harris-stratex-networks, network-operations-center, presence
Nigeria Regulator Secures Deal to Launch Stolen Phone Database
Nigeria's two largest mobile network operators, MTN and Zain have agreed to sign up to a centralised stolen handset database after a funding agreement was brokered by the telecoms regulator....
Related Tags: mtn, zain, netvisa, central-equipment----identity-registry, base