HUAWAEI LAUNCHES DUAL SIM ANDROID PHONES IN NIGERIA

By Prince Osuagwu

Nigeria’s burgeoning mobile sector attracted yet another additional investor last week as Huawei Technologies Ltd, announced the introduction of series of mobile devices into the highly competitive Nigerian mobile phone market.

Huawei is regarded as one of the world’s biggest telecom service providers. It is also one of the prominent telecom Infrastructure providers for many telecom operators in Nigeria, playing in the B2B genre of the technology business for many years.

But now the company says its market survey has discovered a Nigeria with rich, untapped mobile market, begging to be explored.

As a way of grabbing its own share of the pie, the company rolled out an array of seven Qwerty plus touch android based smart phones hoping that they would delight Nigerians.

The flagship of the Android phones is the U8520, which is a dual sim smart phone that supports voice in one SIM and data on the other SIM. Unlike other dual-SIM smartphones the Huawei model has one SIM card slot that can work with 3G network, and the other slot compatible with the GSM network.

The new phone have varied features and styles targeted to meet individual needs ranging from full business (Smart phones) phones to full social networking, emails and internet browsing.

Boasting of high pixels, touch screens, hot spot/WiFi connectivity and sleek designs, the phones also run on the Android operating system which is the fastest growing operating system and targets young social networkers and those who have the youthful mind set.

Other models include the G1000+, G6150, G6005, U8650 and the Boulder U8350 smart phone as well as the S7 Slim Tablet. Though these are application-based high end level phones, Huawei promised that they were going to be affordable for the Nigerian customers.

Unveiling the series in Lagos the company’s Managing Director, Terminals, Mr Jacky Lee, promised that in the coming months, Nigerians from all business strata, social and economic status would have a phone that would help them bridge the digital divide without putting a hole in their pockets.

SOURCE: Vanguard

NIGERIA COMMUNICATION SATELLITE HOSTS SATELLITE PRE-LAUNCH CONFAB

By Odunayo Adams

As prelude to the launch of its replacement satellite, NigComSat 1R, in December, Nigeria’s premier communications satellite company, NIGCOMSAT will hold a series of roadshows and interactive sessions with stakeholders in Lagos.

This is a pre-launch marketing and sensitisation conference. The events slated for November 21, 22 and 23 will enable officials of the company interact and explain to participants what to expect from the satellite that has been moved to its launch site

Expected to feature major industry players including telecommunications, broadcast and internet regulators among others, the three-day industry specific forum will address salient issues about the new satellite, features and what is there for telecommunications , broadcast, internet and other ancillary stakeholders across a broad spectrum of the economy.

Speaking on behalf of the Executive Director Marketing, Abimbola Alale, team leader of the conference committee, Barrister Bala Mohammed, said the conference ‘is certainly a dress rehearsal of things to come’.

Lagos the economic capital of Nigeria will host the event, which is a follow up to the highly rated maiden stakeholders conference which held last July in Abuja.

Bala who is also Deputy General Manager (DGM) Administration at NIGCOMSAT, further explained that ‘we opted to take this edition to Lagos because it’s the hub of the economy and most of the key players in telecommunications, broadcast media and internet service providers (ISPs) have their corporate headquarters in Lagos. We are taking the events to their door steps’. He added.

The armed forces, the police, maritime and aviation industry practitioners will also feature in the conference.

With a thematic preoccupation on Pre-launch marketing and sensitization, the conference will address ‘knowledge innovation and space race’, Design features and the cutting edge- payload, Network solutions, maritime, aviation, broadcast among others of NigComSat 1R.

Communications Technology Minister, Mrs. Omobola Johnson will flag off the event while the host will be Engr. T. Ahmed-Rufai, NIGCOMSAT Managing Director and Chief Executive.

SOURCE: Vanguard