The Leadership Nigeria

West Africa: Bandwidth Cost to Drop As U.S.$650 Million Undersea Cable Goes Live

Issue no 603 4th May 2012

The cost of internet and data services is set drop drastically as the West Africa Cable System, a $650 million undersea cable goes live on May 11 in Nigeria and several African countries where it has landing points.

WACS brought to Nigeria by MTN Nigeria spans the entire West African coast and terminating in the United Kingdom will complement SAT3, Glo1 and Main One Cable systems that are already commercial in West Africa.

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Africast 2012 To Focus On Broadcast Content

Issue no. 128 26 April 2012

The 9th edition of the biennial conference of Africa broadcasters, Africast will focus on issues relating to content. The event is billed to provide a networking environment for providers, distributors and marketers of broadcast content and equipment targeting the emerging African market with the practitioners, policy makers, advisers, administrators and end-users.

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Nigeria: Number Portability To Begin By September - NCC

Issue no 590 3rd February 2012

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said that the Number Portability (NP) service would begin by September.

In an interactive session with journalists in Lagos, Dr. Eugene Juwah, the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, said that the license for the service would be given to the operator this February.

NP is a service that allows a subscriber to use another network other than his original network without losing his original number.

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