The Grid, Vodacom’s mobile social network, has gone global. Following successful launches last year in Nigeria and Tanzania, as of today people worldwide can access this unique service offering mobile chat and content sharing features.
Up to now the two million existing members of The Grid – in South Africa, Nigeria and Tanzania – were [...]
Zain Nigeria has introduced a new service that enables mobile phone users to keep connect with leading social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo via SMS (short message service).
The new Social Networking services will help users rise above the barrier of internet data access and enjoy a quick link up with friends, [...]
Bharti Airtel, which acquired the African Zain’s African assets a few months ago is seeking bids to set up towers in Nigeria, Kenya and Tanzania. The Business Standard reports that the company would award contracts for infrastructure equipment and turnkey projects to build towers sometime next month.
Bharti, which acquired Zain’s African assets for $10.7 billion [...]
Nigeria mobile operator, Zain has introduced free SMS (Short Message Service), lowered tariff for calls made to numbers within (On-Net calls) and out of the networks (off-Net calls), and loads of other benefits designed to give its customers more value.
Also, the telecom company has extended the value proposition of one of its offerings with addition [...]
THE role played by Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in the development of Nigeria in the past 50 years will be celebration on September 30, 2010 in Lagos.
Nigeria attained independence in October 1,1960.
The event, which is being packaged by industry bigwigs, is part of Nigeria’s Golden jubilee celebration, which comes to a [...]
NIGERIA’S Zinox laptops have emerged the best selling notebooks in the Nigerian market ahead of well established global brands, according to provider of market intelligence- International Data Corporation (IDC).
Zinox is strongest in the laptop market where it leads six other international brands, including HP, Acer, Toshiba, Dell, Lenovo and LG Electronics, with a 53.6% market [...]
NIGERIA based Starcomms Plc has added yet another feather to its cap as it becomes the first Code Division Multiple Access operator in the world to provide its customers the opportunity of enjoying international roaming.
The management of the telecoms company said this feat became possible as a result of the agreement signed with [...]
MTN Nigeria Limited mounts the gauntlet on behalf of the country’s telecom operators as it called on Nigeria’s law makers to formulate policies that will help secure telecommunications operations and infrastructure in the country.
Mr. Quasim Odunmbaku, who is MTN’s Regulatory Affairs Manager said some of the policies include those that will accord telecoms operations [...]
With a population of one billion, Africa hosts 86 millions of Internet users. The penetration rate is 8.7% which is rather good compared to the world average of 26.9%.
DotAfrica is that specific Internet namespace for Africa which is likely to be applied for operation during the next round of new Generic Top-Level Domains (GTLds) which [...]
A report from the ITU (International Telecommunication Union) has revealed that 43.9 million Nigerians have access to the internet.
According to the Vanguard, Mr. Abasiama Idaresit Managing Director Wild Fusion, an internet marketing firm based in Ikoyi said:
“This is the latest stats from the International Telecommunication Union, ITU and this makes Nigeria the largest [...]
SAP customers, partners and representatives are coming together at the regional SAP World Tour 2010 in Lagos to share with and hear from peers how business solutions from SAP AG are helping both large enterprises and SMEs run better. The SAP World Tour takes place in more than 80 cities in over 50 countries in [...]