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Articles tagged with: Nigerian Communications Commission and 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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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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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
Related Tags: amd, mms, gsm-association, Nigeria
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
Related Tags: mtn, celtel, glo-mobile, Nigeria
Nigerian Operators Banned from Promotional Adverts
Nigeria's telecoms regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has imposed a blanket ban on all the GSM network operators banning them from adverts which rely on promotional tools to attract new customers. more
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Nigeria Awards Four 3G Licenses
Nigeria's telecoms regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has awarded four 3G licenses. The regulator originally announced the tender for the licenses last year and the tender commenced last month. A total of 17 companies responded to the tender, and four companies made formal applications. more
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Nigeria Announces Plans for 3G Licenses
In a release from the Nigerian telecoms regulator (NCC), the Nigerian Government sasy that it has agreed to licence spectrum in the 1800MHz and 900MHz bands to the Mubadala Development Company of the United Arab Emirates. more
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Nigeria's National Association of Telecommunications Subscribers (NATCOMS) called for a boycott of GSM phone usage last Friday in the country. The one day boycott was set up to try and persuade the network operators to lower their costs and improve coverage. The boycott was supported by the National Association of GSM Subscribers of Nigeria and the Consumers Rights Project. more
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More confusion in Nigerian analogue license row
The Nigerian Communications Commission has confirmed that it renewed the ETACS license held by Mobile Telecommunication Services (MTS) but has now added that MTS cannot offer services until its spectrum is allocated by the Ministry of Communications. The NCC said that MTS's license was renewed after no objections were made, but the spectrum that MTS had been using in 1995 was no longer available as they had been reclaimed by the government in October 2000. MTS has paid just US$1 million for its license renewal, but is expected to have to pay a further fee to be allocated actual radio spectrum. The license that MTS has been granted is for 10 years, and does not permit any future migration to a digital standard." more
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