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Articles tagged with: Ncc
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. more
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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. Annual growth stood at 32.8%, the lowest rate for eight years, although with penetration edging towards 50% (Q2 09: 46.9%) such a slowdown is to be expected. more
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Nigeria to Re-Auction WiMAX Licenses
Nigeria's telecoms regulator, the Communications Commission (ncc) has been ordered to cancel the recent WiMAX licenses and rerun the tender process. The decision came from the President's office following several months of controversy over how the licenses were awarded. more
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Nigeria's Bullish Growth Continues in Fourth Quarter
Nigeria's telecoms regulator the ncc has reported customer numbers for the fourth quarter of 2008. The total customer base reached 62.99m at the end of the year having increased by 55.9% annually. On a quarterly basis, net additions stood at 7.15m, only just short of the national and continental record of 7.38m, set in Q2 08. more
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Nigeria's Second Best Quarter for Subscriber Growth
Nigeria's Q3 08 growth could not match the record-breaking levels seen in the previous quarter, when 7.38m new connections were added - more than double the best figure recorded in any other African nation. However, its third-quarter boost of 4.11m was the second best figure ever recorded in the market, which is particularly impressive given that one of the top three operators, Glo, suffered a loss of 0.6m customers in the quarter. At the end of Q3, there were 55.8m connections in Nigeria, up 51% year on year with annual net additions of 18.8m. more
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Namibia's Telecom Regulator to Settle Interconnection Fee Dispute
Namibia's three mobile operators have agreed to dump their ongoing dispute about interconnection fees onto the telecoms regulator, the ncc and let it sort out the mess. Telecom, One Cell and MTC met on Monday this week, at the request of the Minister of Information and Communication Technology Joel Kaapanda, with the ncc as the facilitator for the meeting. more
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Telecom New Zealand International Completes GSMA IPX Trial
Telecom New Zealand International (TNZI) says that it has successfully completed the GSM Association (GSMA) Phase 2 IPX trials for telephony services interworking and IP performance testing within a global multi-operator test community. more
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Nigeria - Phenomenal Growth, and More to Come
The Nigerian market has been growing at an impressive pace for some time, but the latest figures from the national regulator the ncc show that growth reached unprecedented levels in the second quarter of 2008. Quarterly net additions totalled a phenomenal 7.38m, an African record by a considerable margin. In fact, Nigeria claims the top five figures for quarterly net additions in Africa with a previous best of 4.09m in Q4 06; outside of Nigeria, the best ever result was in Egypt, which added 3.33m in Q3 07. more
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Stolen Handsets Could Be Blocked Throughout West Africa
APA - Lagos (Nigeria) The National Association of Telecommunications Subscribers (NATCOMS) Tuesday said that it would soon introduce an anti-theft device that will render any stolen telephone handset unusable within the West African sub-region. more
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Nigerian Operator Subscriber Base Slumps Following Recount
The Nigerian Communications Commission (ncc) recently began releasing information on the number of active subscribers in Nigeria, and as a result we have adjusted the figures in The Mobile World Database to give a more accurate depiction of the market. This was a crucial revision, not least because the ncc reported a rapid rise in the inactivity level in the final quarter of the year: from 15.9% at the end of Q3, it reached 26.9% at year-end. more
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