Author: Titi Omo-Ettu

A Lead Paper on the Theme Transforming a Nation with Broadband Telecom as an Instrument for Sustainable Development   ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Brainchild of the Summit Subject Matter for appreciating the need to discuss all about Access, The Customer. Quality of service NCC for being passionate about these matters Homage Because they did it   SUBJECT…

By Titi Omo-Ettu Now you know it that I am one of those who believe that we now have an industry called CommTech (for Communication Technology), a nomenclature borrowed from those who authored the creation of that Ministry last year.  They went about it the other way round by creating a Minister who eventually told…

The attention of our Association has been drawn to the Lagos State Special People’s Law 2011 which seeks to safeguard people living with disability from all forms of discrimination and equalise their opportunities in all aspects of living in the society. The Law provides for protection of the interest of persons who live with disabilities…

How did we totally lose our way?Indeed is the question! But I did not ask the question. It is one articulated by Ms Funke Opeke, CEO of MainOne Cable Company in a Guests’ Comment Register at the breakfast meeting by CEO members of ATCON for Engr Victor Haffner’s 92nd birthday last September. Therein, she wrote:…

Mr Olatunji Ariyomo raised very good and informed points in his ‘Sustainable Electricity:  How Nigeria Can Get It Right’ which I had read on Saharareporters.com and found compelling especially as I am one of the author’s Facebook contacts. As a concerned Nigerian, and part of the long suffering citizenry, while I think we should revisit…

Ladies & Gentlemen I welcome you to this meeting, the objective of which is to bounce ideas amongst ourselves and with our Regulator. It is also an opportunity to, once again, congratulate Dr Eugene Juwah on his worthy appointment. This meeting also presents us with the platform not only to refocus our industry, but to…

We invite public attention to a report which came from Kafanchan, a town in southern Kaduna State in north-central Nigeria, where the recent opprobrium of post-election violence led to the overrun of the facilities of a Community Communication Service Centre. Fantsuam Foundation is a voluntary service community organization which has over the last few years…

Mobile Web West Africa Conference Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, This is a unique gathering and one which I feel privileged to address.  It is a gathering assembled by a guy who, my investigations reveal, is fast becoming a ‘young veteran’ in the business of putting people together to discuss. I ran into some colleagues who were…

The Association of Telecommunication Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) is pleased to advise its members, other industry players, and the public that as part of the implementation of the 2011 business plan, it welcomes collaboration on initiatives which conform to its mission for the year. The framework and process of implementation to get endorsement and collaboration…

“Pathway to Connecting the Last Man” Being excerpt of the Lecture delivered by Engr.Titi Omo-Ettu, FNSE (President ATCON) at the 11th Distinguished Electrical and Electronics Engineers Annual Lecture (DEEEAL), Dec.16, 2010 at Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Lagos,Nigeria Nigerians have spoken The transformation of the mindset of the Nigerian from a position of the telephone not…

“Pathway to Connecting the Last Man” Excerpt of the Lecture delivered by Engr.Titi Omo-Ettu, FNSE (President ATCON) at the 11th Distinguished Electrical and Electronics Engineers Annual Lecture (DEEEAL), Dec.16, 2010 at Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Lagos,Nigeria Introduction Why the DEEEAL Lecture? An idea similar to what is now called the DEEEAL lecture was mooted in…

On behalf of the Nigerian Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, NIEEE (A Division of the Nigerian Society of Engineers) I am pleased to send this advance notice of invitation to the Distinguished Electrical Electronic Engineer’s Annual Lecture, DEEEAL, 2010 entitled “Pathway to connecting the Last Man” which, owing to my nomination by the Institution,…

An integral and sometimes unhealthy part of our discourse is the incessant carping about the failures and inadequacies of our political and socio-economic system. Whilst there is some merit in such arguments, some rant often offers nothing more than stating the bleeding obvious. While it has become customary to hear about public officials bemoaning the…

 This is not a talk about Bharti. It is, as the reader will soon find out, a talk about Nigeria.  You may be forgiven if you thought, from the name Bharti Airtel that we are referring to an airline rather than a telecommunications company. If its meteoric rise among world-class mobile telecom service providers has…

At last, Government has appointed Mr. Peter Egbe Igho as Chairman, Dr. Eugene Juwah as Executive Vice-Chairman, Dr. Okechukwu Itanyi Executive Commissioner and Mr. Mohammed Bintube as Commissioner for the Nigerian Communications Commission.

Call it information poverty: individuals and communities cut off from resources that could dramatically improve their living standards because communications connectivity is absent or limited or expensive. Denied access to knowhow, or even market price data to sell their produce, they are stymied and trapped in deprivation.  In developing countries, information poverty rapidly becomes actual…

An Address by Engr. Titi Omo-Ettu, President, ATCON at the WAFICT Conference/Exhibition in Lagos. We are once again opportune to be part of another session of the WAFICT Exhibition/Conference. The timing is particularly significant given that our industry is experiencing considerable transformation. Change is afoot at the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC; as is the reality…

Our Association’s attention has been drawn to a recent news report that  Globacom – a telecommunications company and Nigeria’s Second National Operator – is contemplating withdrawing its business activities from Ghana for reasons of sabotage and vandalism of its infrastructure and challenges to its investment believed to be perpetrated by some local interests in that…

WiMAXForum 2010 June 15 & 16, 2010 in Lagos   1.       Forum Objective The WimaxForum 2010 is an international Event.   It aims to harness the technical and commercial resources, expertise, technologies and opportunities available in Nigeria in a bid to stimulate investment and encourage best business practices.

Review of  “e-Knowledge – Time is Running Out!” a compendium of the works of Mr. Chris Uwaje   By titi omo-ettu [email protected]   Institute of International Affairs, Kofo Abayomi Road, Victoria Island, Lagos. March 30, 2010  

Telecommunications and banking in any economy can be likened to siamese twins. This is because there is a symbiotic, interdependent and self-reinforcing relationship between both sectors as they individually and jointly stimulate as well drive, the economy. So when global telecom players tried to convince us of their immunity, given what we knew was going…

The Challenge It is intellectually lazy as well as factually inaccurate to treat emerging markets as a homogenous group. While there is no doubt that mobile telephony is rapidly progressing in a pretty impressive fashion in some parts namely Latin America and the Indian subcontinent, in others mobile telephony faces the systemic problems that hamper…

 For those who live in the developed economies, mobile telephony has surpassed its raison d’etre of exchange of information between peoples and seamlessly moved into the socio-political realm of politics and consumption. With the unrest following the Iranian presidential elections of 12 June (whaoh! June 12 again!), the leading question in media and academic circles…