Nigeria phone privatisation off
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The Nigerian government cancels another sale of a state firm by former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
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PORT HARCOURTâ CHIEFS and people of Kula Kingdom in Rivers State have sealed-off the kingdom, saying they will not negotiate with the Rivers State government but with the Federal Government
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Nigeria Justice Minister Michael Aodoakaa on Friday suspended plans to re-denominate the Nigerian currency, the naira, on the grounds that the central bank had not obtained presidential approval.
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Nigeria said on Monday that it had banned the awarding of government contracts to Halliburton, the oil services company, as a result of the theft of two radioactive devices from its Nigerian subsidiary.
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States are now barred from imposing telecommunications regulations on Net phone providers.
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Regulators will tell Europe's mobile phone operators to  cut the cost of overseas texting and internet access.
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WHAT IS HAPPENING: Cell-phone carriers including AT&T, Verizon Wireless and Alltel will be turning off their analog networks starting Feb. 19, 2008.
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France Telecom shares have fallen after the French government opted to reduce its substantial stake in the business.
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Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua scraps state owned oil company, in a bid to restructure the oil sector.
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Royal Dutch/Shell Group&#39;s Nigerian venture, which pumps almost half the oil in Africa&#39;s biggest oil producer, closed an oil-pumping station and reduced the movement of staff after rebels threatened to attack oil installations.
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Ireland's dominant telephone company, Eircom PLC, shut down services Tuesday to smaller rival Smart Telecom in a dispute over unpaid bills, leaving 40,000 households and businesses unable to make calls.
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After a call for a boycott from a Roman Catholic archbishop, hundreds of complaints and one lawsuit from customers, the Canadian phone company Telus abandoned a service that allowed cellphone customers to buy soft-core pornography. Telus, based in Vancouver, began offering pornography to its five million wireless customers along with more conventional downloads like music and ring tones last month. Jim Johannson, a spokesman for the company, said the decision to end the service was based in part on âcustomer feedback.â Mr. Johannson, however, did not rule out a change in policy. âWe operate in a really, really competitive business,â he said. âIn this environment, itâs very difficult to predict the future.â.
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Nigerian unions on Monday suspended a general strike due to start on Tuesday after the government agreed to reduce domestic fuel prices, a union leader said.
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but winds up costing consumers tens of millions of dollars a year -- is being scaled back by two of the nation&#39;s biggest cell phone carriers.
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Trade Unions and civil rights groups in Nigeria, Africa&#39;s largest oil exporter, have called off a national strike over fuel prices.
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The market's changing, so the regs will too Telecoms regulator Ofcom is to investigate whether changes in the UK mobile market should also mean changes in the way it is regulated.â¦
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Blog: VoIP provider SunRocket is shutting down.