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Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Pfungwa Serima, CEO, SAP Africa from The Report: Nigeria 2013
Articles & Analysis | An emphasis on quality: Expanding and upgrading telecoms networks is a key focus from The Report: Nigeria 2013
More than a decade after Nigeria’s telecoms sector was liberalised in the early 2000s, the provision of high-quality, uninterrupted services remains a major challenge for local operators. Dropped calls and other interruptions have become so common in recent years that many mobile subscribers have taken to carrying more than one SIM card and either a...
Chapter | IT & Telecoms from The Report: Nigeria 2013
Over the past decade Nigeria’s ICT industry has grown to become one of the largest and most dynamic in Africa, with total mobile internet subscribers topping 30.9m at the end of the second quarter of 2012, accounting for the majority of the country’s 48.4m internet users. While the government has taken a prominent position on driving basic penetration, private operators have been influential in...
As the single most populous nation in Africa, Nigeria recently overtook South Africa as the largest economy on the continent. Natural resources, oil and gas in particular, comprise the country’s single largest revenue-earner but the 170m person economy also has seen significant activity in recent years into the industrial, financial, telecoms and – as of 2013 – power sectors.
Economic update | Nigeria aims for ICT improvements
23 Aug 2013
While Nigeria has some way to go when it comes to developing local content and fostering start-ups in the information and communications technology (ICT) industry, the government has shown a commitment to the sector through its far-reaching National Broadband Plan (NBP).
A government decision to enact long-awaited mobile number portability (MNP) regulations, together with infrastructure sharing, should go some way towards improving the quality of service in the Nigerian telecommunications market.