Telecoms

Etisalat is set to phase out the telecom group’s brand in Nigeria, Hatem Dowidar, the chief executive of Etisalat International, said on Monday. PREMIUM TIMES reports that efforts by Nigerian Telecom regulator to save Etisalat […]

Telecoms group Etisalat has finally announced the termination of its management agreement with its Nigerian arm. According to Reuters, the company has given few weeks to operators of the brand to phase out Etisalat in […]

Boye Olusanya, former deputy managing director of Celtel Nigeria (now Airtel Nigeria), will be the chief executive officer of Etisalat Nigeria during the transition period, TheCable understands. Matthew Willsher stepped down as CEO on Monday, […]

Nigeria’s fourth largest mobile company, Etisalat, has a new board. The firm, whose former chairman Hakeem Bello-Osagie resigned last week due to its debt crisis, announced the new management in a statement hy its spokesperson. […]

Etisalat, Nigeria’s fourth largest mobile operator is enmeshed in a debt crisis that could lead to a change of its ownership. PREMIUM TIMES has extensively reported on the debt crisis with the firm and the […]

Citing the Nigerian Communications Act (NCA), the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Tuesday stepped into the crisis that has enveloped the country’s fourth largest network operator, Etisalat, reminding the consortium of banks that the telecoms firm […]

Etisalat Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s fourth largest telecommunication firm, appears to be swimming deeper in troubled waters as Mubadala Development Company of United Arab Emirates, the company’s largest shareholder, has pulled out its investment and headed […]

On May the 19th 2017, SaharaReporters published an article “NCC in Toothless Dog Bark at Telecom Firms” with an opinion that the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has not acted on the violation of consumer rights […]

Today’s event emphasizes the position of Lagos state as the telecommunications hub of Nigeria. The Nigerian Bureau of Statistics in its first quarter telecommunications sector report for 2016 placed Lagos voice subscriber base at 19.04 […]

Umar Danbatta, executive vice-chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), says his agency is doing its best to ensure that telecommunication consumers get good service. Speaking in Lagos at the flag off of NCC 2017 […]

The Executive Vice Chairman, Nigeria Communications Commission, NCC, Umar Danbatta, on Wednesday said more than one million consumers activated the 2442 Do-Not-Disturb code within two months. Mr. Danbatta made this known during the Lagos Launch […]

Vendors selling MTN recharge cards at prices above the face value are doing so illegally, the mobile operator has said. Adekunle Adebiyi, the acting sales and distribution executive of MTN, said in a statement on […]

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network operators in Nigeria lost 1.66 million subscribers in March. According to the subscriber data released on the commission’s website, all GSM operators, […]