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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has remitted N51.3 billion to the Federal Government’s Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) in the first quarter of 2019.
The remittance, according to the Executive Vice Chairman (EVC/CEO), NCC, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, is in compliance with the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2007 (FRA 2007).
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The Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive (EVC/CE) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Professor Umar Danbatta, has received an Award of Excellence in Regulatory Excellence for NCC's attainment of the 2018 target set for broadband penetration in Nigeria.
The Award, conferred by the Kabuga, Kano branch of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), was presented yesterday during the Society's 2019 Annual Dinner and Awards Night which took place in Kano.
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As part of its Stakeholders consultative activities and continuous collaboration with other African regulatory bodies on the need to integrate the African Continent for a seamless connectivity and consumer experience, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), will host the 2nd edition of the Conference of African Telecommunications Regulators on Consumer Affairs (CATCO), 2019 as follows:
Date: August 20 - 22, 2019
Venue: Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja
Time: 9am daily
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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has reminded telecoms consumers about the existence of Mobile Number Portability (MNP) or porting service, enjoining them to leverage it in case of dissatisfaction with the services provided by their current respective networks.
The MNP or simply porting is a need-based service that allows subscribers to migrate their mobile number from their current network to another preferred network without losing their number where the existing network fails to meet their expectation in terms of quality of service (QoS) delivery.
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The Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive (EVC/CE) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta has said that the generational changes in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have continued to redefine the dynamism of the telecommunications industry.
Danbatta explained that such changes have resulted in a paradigm shift from a voice-dominated technologies (1G - first generation) to data-dominated technologies such as second generation (2G), third generation (3G), to the fourth generation 4G and to the promising fifth generation (5G), which is expected to drive future telecoms services.
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