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NCC & Eldee to battle TECHNO phone over copyright issues

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  China based phone manufacturing company: Tecno, makers of the Tecno brand of mobile phones, one of Nigeria’s top selling handsets, and who have a multitude of distributors and sales agents in Nigeria, is in a mess over the infringement of Nigerian musicians’ intellectual properties. eLDee The company according to our source were alleged to have pre-loaded different songs recorded by some Nigerian artistes, onto memory cards which are embedded in the phones being sold without due

Nigeria Communication Commission locks up Glo's office in Abuja

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The Abuja office of telecommunication giant, Globacom has been sealed up by the Nigerian Communications Commission [NCC]. It was said that the seal off was necessitated by Globacom’s non compliance with telecom guidelines as ordered by the Nigeria Communication Commission. The NCC officials declared that two letters had been written to Globacom authorities over the company’s non compliance with the directive on the ban of sale of activated GSM sim cards to subscribers and the non-compliance with the guidelines on installations of masts and towers. Recently, the Nigerian Communications Commission had slammed a N5million fine on the telecommunication giant for failing to comply with the ban on sale of fully activated new SIM cards and guidelines on technical specification for installation of masts and towers. NCC compliance and monitoring team said it received reports from several locations in the country indicated that most of the SIM cards sold by Globacom were already full...