FOR telecoms the sun is rising on Nigeria and officials are trying not to let it go down but instead making the country's telecom sector the kind of model that other countries will aspire to.

As the 18th edition of the biggest West African ICT trade exhibition and conference, Computer Technology and Office Equipment, CTO 2008 trade expo with the theme, A World without Borders" drew to a close, last week in Lagos with a

WARID Telecom has launched its operations in Lira and Apac. The general manager, Zul Javaid, said the company had already put up four masts on Gulu road.

THE Government will help students in tertiary institutions get laptop computers.

WARID Telecom rocked Lira town as its northern Uganda regional offices and business centre were launched last Friday. Entertainers like Priscilla Kalibala, DJ Languna and his Congolese dancer with his famous Acholi song Angelina do, Jibu Mambo with Lobo wa

Indications emerged at the weekend that Hewlett Packard, HP may have doled out a whopping $13.9 billion to acquire one of the world's largest IT outsourcing companies, Electronic Data System (EDS), following a definitive agreement which the two companies signed

NIGERIA'S Communications minister and newly elected chairman of Africa Union Ministers Bureau on Information and Communications, (ICT) Mr. John Odey has stated that telecommunication is a unique tool for economic growth and development in the West Africa sub Region.

Third Generation (3G) frequencies will soon be rolled out as work on the requisite technical and logistical alignments is now at an advanced stage.

Leading mobile phone operators Celtel and Safaricom are building customer loyalty before the entry of two new service providers.

Ogun State government has pledged its commitment to ensuring that all school- age ch ildren are in school, while enforcing discipline and harmony at all levels and facets of the educational system in the state.

All is now set for the elaborate roll-out of the services of Starcomms, Nigeria's 4th largest telecommunications operator and leading "triple-play" (mobile, fixed wireless voice, wireless broadband) provider in Benin City.

AN INDIAN telecoms watchdog has threatened legal action if the proposed deal between Bharti Airtel and MTN breaches India's foreign-ownership rules.

For 21 days in June, staff of Nigeria's leading telecommunications company, MTN Nigeria across the country will embark on a series of community-based activities under a programme known as 21 Days of Y'ello Care. It is the second edition of

Not-for-profit organisation with focus on promoting Internet in the country, the Nigeria Internet Group (NIG) is collaborating with the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) on the second year edition of Internet for Job (I4J)

With more than half of the world's population now becoming mobile telephone subscribers, the digital divide in such phones has been largely bridged, but there remains a widening risk of an Internet broadband divide, the head of the United Nations

As the proposed merger between Bharti Aitel, India's largest mobile operator and the MTN group of South Africa reaches a conclusion, an Indian consumer pressure group has kicked against the deal and warned that the proposed deal between Bharti and

The battlelines in the war for subscribers seem to have been drawn after leading industry players within hours of each other on Monday announced a new set of cheaper calling rates.

The DRC Ministry of Post, Telephones and Telecommunications (PTT) organized a sensibilisation day on Monday 19 April 2008 in Kinshasa on TIC (Technologies - Information and Communications). Mr. Alphonse Ntita, the TIC national coordinator, explained the importance of the roll