According to a report by Nigerian Communications Week, on Tuesday the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) raided and sealed the premises of Samsung West Africa in Victoria Island, Lagos, for failure to register some of its products on the market…
Today, 04 July 2017, marks a landmark day for geographic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) in Africa as registration for the .africa (dotAfrica) domain has opened to the general public. “The floodgates have finally been thrown open and .africa domains are…
There has been an overwhelming interest in the dotAfrica (.africa) domain by a number of trademark owners which has seen the geographic Top Level Domain (gTLD) score rocket to take a place within the top ten globally for the largest number…
After opening the .africa domain for brands to register earlier this year, the ZA Central Registry’s (ZACR’s) did not anticipate such a response to the drive to encourage Africa’s leading brands to apply for preferential access to their desired .africa…
MTN Ghana, a leading telecommunications operator, sent out a reminder yesterday to all its customers across the country to register their voice and data SIM cards. The company statement said it “wishes to advise MTN customers to send a blank…
South African mobile cellular network Vodacom, has described the just-ended SIM card registration process as a huge success. Responding to questions from ITNewsAfrica on 8 July 2011, Vodacom says about one million SIM cards out of an estimated 27 million…
The 2011 10th Anniversary iWeek conference, a South African Internet and telecoms industry’s annual gathering, will feature international speakers from six continents. iWeek 2011 is a free conference and most of the proceedings are open to anyone involved in the…
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the country’s mobile regulator, yesterday said that new Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards would no longer be allowed to make calls, signifying the beginning of SIM card registration. Executive Vice-Chairman (EVC) of the NCC, Eugene…
Nigeria’s telecoms regulator, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has once again postponed the deadline for SIM card registration from 1 March 2010 to 1 May 2010, thus giving mobile operators two more months to prepare for a government-imposed program to register…
Nigeria’s biggest telecommunication firms are planning to go to court to compel the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to suspend the registration of all SIM cards by March this year.