9mobile has appointed John Vasikaran, who has more than 20 years in the African telecoms industry, as its new Chief Operating Officer (COO). As the chief operating officer, his mandate includes providing strategic leadership for operations spanning Technical, IT, Sales, Commercial Planning, Customer Care, Marketing Communications, and PMO, all in harmony with EMTS’ strategic vision...
9mobile has announced an easy self-service unbarring portal for customers to connect their NIN and unbar their lines online. The 9mobile NIN-Web Linking service, grants a reprieve to customers affected by the recent directive from the federal government to telecoms operators (Telcos), to bar calls from phone numbers yet to be linked to their National...
The Chief Executive Officer of 9mobile, Alan Sinfield, has said his company will support the ‘Smart City’ initiative of the Lagos State Government. Sinfield at a panel session, Digital Transformation Solutions for Smart Cities at the Lagos State Economic Summit – Ehingbeti 2021, noted the significance of the Smart City Masterplan of Lagos State and...
MTN Nigeria and Emerging Markets Telecommunication Services (9mobile) plan to seek regulatory permission to roll out national roaming on their respective mobile networks, 9Mobile CEO Alan Sinfield told The Africa Report. The decision follows a trial of national roaming between the two companies in Ondo State. As previously reported by CommsUpdate, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) approved the...
Nigerian telecommunications firm 9mobile has announced several new executive appointments, including new CTO, Deputy CTO and Director of Strategy In a statement the company confirmed that Juergen Peschel has been appointed as the new CTO, Baqi Salihu, Deputy CTO, and Karn Gulati as Director of Strategy. An excerpt from the statement reads: “As CTO, Peschel,...
Nigerian telecommunications services provider 9mobile has thrown its weight behind the West African country’s government plans to transform the economy – specifically the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy. This is the country’s official policy direction that has been developed with the objective to position Nigeria in the global digital economy, as well as improve...
Emerging Markets Telecommunication Services Limited (EMTS), trading as 9mobile, has appointed veteran business growth executive Stjepan Udovicic as the company’s Chief Commercial Officer. Udovicic joins 9mobile from the Axiata Group Berhad and its operating company in Cambodia (Smart) and s tasked with leading lead the marketing, products, sales, distribution, customer services, and digital front-ends. He...
9mobile says it has crashed its call and data tariffs in its Morelife package. Morelife is a voice-based prepaid package that allows customers to make calls at 11k/s to all networks in Nigeria and to top international destinations including UK, USA, Canada, China, Norway, Puerto Rico and Bangladesh with a daily access fee of only...
Globacom gained over 2.9 million internet subscribers in the month of March, according to the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) recently released industry stats.
The Nigeria mobile telecommunications company - 9mobile - has announced the appointment of Mr Alan Sinfield as its new CEO, as it seeks to now drive for market growth.
