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Ndukwe:
Recasting 10- Year Strides of Africa’s Iconic Telecom Regulator |
Dr. Ernest
Ndukwe has become, somewhat, a phenomenon in the Africa telecom
development landscape. An electrical/electronics engineer, he has
been decorated across Africa and beyond, for his revolutionary
telecom regulatory regime that has transformed, not just his
country, Nigeria, but has impacted politically and economically on
the emancipation of the continental aspiration for telecom
sovereignty.
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Telecom, a
tool to Fight Corruption |
Recently,
Commonwealth Business Council organised a conference on Africa
Investment in Accra Ghana and the Director General, Dr. Mohan Kaul
was cornered by our reporter, Ozioma Akubueze. Dr. M.K, for short,
granted an exclusive interview to Africa Telecom &IT Business,
answering questions on a wide range of issues. Read his comments on
Africa.
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Toyota recalls
80,000 cars in Africa |
Toyota
Motors International has said it is recalling about 80, 000 of such
cars that have the sticking accelerator pedals and floor mat pedal
entrapment problems.
World wide the figure of the recall had seen Toyota Motors withdraw
about 8.5 million cars from America, Europe, China and Middle East
which excluded from Africa at the outset.
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Camera-Centric
Phones:
The Megapixel
Showdown |
Following
the exploits of digital cameras in space, the history of digital
photography moves back to Earth here.
A new era in photography began on August 25, 1981 when Sony unveiled
a prototype of the company's first still video camera, the Mavica
(Magnetic Video Camera).
It recorded analog images on two-inch floppy disks and played them
back on a TV set or Video monitor.
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Internet as a
Fundamental Right |
Nearly
four in five people around the world believe that access to the
Internet is a fundamental right, a survey conducted by GlobeScan for
the BBC World Service suggests.
The survey found that 87 percent of Internet users felt internet
access should be the "fundamental right of all people."
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$2.5b.....the
bell went missing for Nigeria’s NITEL |
When the
bell dropped on February 16, 2010 on the awaited sale of Nigeria’s NITEL, Usman Gumi, leader of New Generation Telecom, which staked
$2.5Billion, stood and waved the victory sign.
“This is a surprise”, muttered an unidentified official of the
Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE, the government agency that
handled the sale.
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Consumer
Parliament: A Voice for the underdog |
In the telecom service chain, the
consumer is at the receiving end of the actions of the regulator and
the operators. In Nigeria, the telecom regulator, under Dr. Ernest
Ndukwe, a paradigm shift evolved with the introduction of a monthly
industry self-appraisal called Telecom Consumer Parliament, TCP,
where the consumers are given the opportunity to call the regulator
and the operators into account.
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Payment Portal boosts E-Commerce in Kenya |
The
launch of an online store that offers quality baby clothing by
Quentin Faulkner to parents who wish to buy good quality clothing
for their children two years ago, is reported to be making
tremendous sales.
The baby clothing store which has no physical location and solely
markets products using social networking website Facebook - now
handles up to 90 transactions a month.
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