Nigeria Tops 169 Countries In Global Internet Poverty Index   Nigeria has the largest number of Internet poor people in the world, according to the Internet Poverty Index by the World Data Lab. According to the index, 47.39 per cent (103.02 million people) of Nigeria’s 217.37 million...

Fed Govt, Operators Disagree Over Proposed Cost Of 5G Spectrum   Operators in the telecommunication space have said the minimum price set for the planned 5G spectrum is too expensive and higher than what obtains in most other countries. This was disclosed during the ‘Stakeholders Consultative Forum...

MTN Pays N71.6bn For Spectrum Licence Renewal       The Nigerian Communications Commission has renewed the Unified Access Service licence and spectrum licence for wireless local loop in the 900MHz and 1800MHz band of MTN Nigeria. MTN made this known in a statement signed by the company secretary,...

Nigeria’s Data Usage Rises By 202% In Three Years - NCC       Data usage in Nigeria surged by 202.08 per cent in three years, according to data from the Nigerian Communications Commission. According to the subscriber/network data reports of 2018, 2019, and 2020, data usage rose from...

NCC Celebrates MTN’s N1trn Gains In Capital Market         The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is counting the gains of the listing of MTN in the Nigerian Stocks Exchange (NSE) market, asserting that investors have “raked in approximately N1 trillion in price appreciation and dividends since April...

In 3months, NCC Remits N51.3bn To FG The Nigerian Communications Commission says it remitted N51.3bn to the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federal Government in the first quarter of 2019. The remittance, according to the Executive Vice-Chairman, NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, is in compliance with the...