News and Events
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Internet Access Will Improve Soon -Main One
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Main One Cable Company says it is confident that broadband penetration in Nigeria will soon improve. This will make Internet access almost ubiquitous in the country, where about half of the population currently lack access, due to poverty. The company said it has started expanding its infrastructure to improve penetration and enable people across [...]
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Monday, January 23, 2012
Main One expands broadband infrastructure with new investments
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Nigeria’s premier private submarine cable company, Main One Cable, has started expanding its broadband infrastructure to enable more Nigerians have access to its services. The company, in a statement on Friday, said it was determined to service the country’s huge market and those of neighbouring countries with broadband services. The Chief Executive Officer, Main One [...]
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
NigComSat will partner Main One to improve connectivity – Ahmed-Rufai
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The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited, Mr. Timasaniyu Ahmed-Rufai, says the satellite service provider will complement the efforts of Main One Cable Company in broadband connectivity, while speaking toDAYO OKETOLA on issues surrounding the recent launch of NigComSat-1R into space. Read more…
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Consolidating ICT industry’s gains in 2012
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Impressed by the Information Communications Technology industry’s achievements in 2011, experts highlight what to be done to fast- track the sector’s growth and increase economic benefits in 2012, writes DAYO OKETOLA. Learn more…
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Facilitating ICT growth with new policy
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The newly released draft National ICT policy is expected to unite the telecoms, broadcasting, Information Technology, and postal services sub-sectors and drive increased growth in the ICT industry, writes DAYO OKETOLA Learn more…
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Underwater cables bring faster internet to West Africa
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(CNN) – Stretching some 7,000 kilometers along the West African coastline, a submarine fiber-optic cable emerges off the coast of Nigeria to help bridge the digital divide in the continent. Dubbed Main One Cable, the system links West Africa with Europe, bringing ultra-fast broadband in the region. It runs from Seixal in Portugal through Accra [...]
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Someone Must Extend The Cable Inland to Solve Nigeria’s Bandwidth Problems
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We continue to thank MainOne for the efforts to help Nigerians connect online. It remains a pity that Egypt and South Africa have more online footprints than the most populous nation in Africa. Nigeria is not doing very well. So, MainOne promised to do something and they have done a really good job. Yet, they [...]
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Fed. Ministry of Communication Technology releases Draft ICT Policy Document for public review
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The Honourable Minister of Communications Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson, on 25th August 2011, set up an Adhoc Committee to harmonize all the various policies for the different sectors in the ICT industry (Telecommunications, Broadcasting, Information Technology and Postal Services). The draft of the Harmonized ICT Policy is now released to the public for comments [...]
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
THISDAY Honours 45 Women with Awards for Excellence
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The 17th THISDAY Annual Awards for Excellence will honour outstanding female achievers this year, the newspaper’s Board of Editors revealed yesterday. Also, 25 eminent Nigerian elders will be conferred with the Life Achievers Award at this year’s award ceremony. Learn more…
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Nigeria yearns for broadband internet in 2012
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Over one year after the landing of two additional undersea broadband cable networks – Main-One and Glo-One in the country, the penetration and cost of broadband internet services have remained hardly accessible. This is despite the fact that internet penetration in the country has catapaulted from 10 to 40 million content of the population in [...]
