Huawei has faced mounting political pressure in recent months as the U.S. asks allied countries to block Huawei from being a part of next-generation mobile networks known as 5G. Washington has accused the Chinese telecom equipment maker of being a national security risk, alleging its gear could be used by Beijing
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Pay With Your Fingerprint: Natwest Launches First Fingerprint Debit Card. NatWest is launching Britain's first biometric bank card which will allow people to verify payments over £30 - the current contactless card limit - without the need to enter a PIN at the till. It will verify card payments using the owner's fingerprint
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Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says that it will henceforth prosecute those involved in fraudulent registration of SIM card. The commission said it would no longer be business as usual, threatening that anyone caught would be made liable to face 25 years imprisonment as prescribed by the law. Mr Sunday Dare, Executive Commissioner,
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A Nigerian firm, Pan African Towers (PAT) Limited, has said there is a 38,000 deficit of base transmission station (BTS) in the telecom sector requiring huge investment. It, however, said the introduction of colocation and infrastructure sharing by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has eased the task as it has taken
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Huawei Expects Double Digit Growth In 2019. Demand is strong in China, Europe, South America, Middle East and Africa, says the company “We’ve seen an overall optimism and acceleration in the industry regarding 5G deployment since the second half of last year,” said Hu at the company’s annual results meeting, “we expect
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Amazon said it will shut its China online store by July 18, as the US e-commerce giant focuses on the lucrative businesses of selling overseas goods and cloud services in the world’s most populous nation. The move underscores how entrenched, home-grown e-commerce rivals have made it difficult for Amazon’s marketplace to
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Telecoms Operators Demand Roadmap On 5G in the country, advised the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) to unveil the roadmap on 5G, which the latest technology developed countries are warming up to embrace. Acting under the aegis of the Association of Licensed Telecoms Companies of Nigeria (ALTON), the operators, said the inevitability of
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Japan’s wireless network operators Docomo, Softbank, KDDI and Rakuten are to spend $14.4 billion on installing 5G networks over the next five years. The newcomer, Rakuten, plans to spend $1.75 billion; Softbank plans to spend $1.&86 billion; KDDI plans to spend $4.2 billion and Docomo plans to spend $7.2 billion. The plans
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Konga Ready To Invade Others English Speaking West African Countries Konga, Nigeria’s foremost retail giant, could soon enter into other English-speaking West African countries as it moves to stamp its authority in e-Commerce space. Nick Imudia, co-chief executive officer, Konga Group, who dropped the hint recently, said that Konga is more than
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Inlaks ATM Academy Project 3.0 Graduates 57 Students With the objective of depleting Nigeria’s unemployed population, ICT Infrastructure Solutions Provider, Inlaks, embarked on ATM Academy project in 2016. ATM The project was its own Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, platform directed at training young Nigerians to acquire the skills of ATM building and
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