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Jonah Iboma ETranzact, Nigeria’s multichannel payment solutions provider, has extended its services to other African countries. This follows its signing of agreements with utility services providers and other organisations in Ghana and Zimbabwe. Some of the partners to the agreement, the firm said, include Ghana Telecom and Mutual Fund Administrators in Ghana. In Zimbabwe, the partners are Zimbabwe Electronic Supply Authority, TelOne, Telecel Zimbabwe, City of Harare, City of Bulawayo and City of Mutare. The services that are being facilitated by eTranzact cuts across finance, education, telecom, water and electricity bill payments. eTranzact, according to details made available to our correspondent on Friday, said it had installed online fee payments system at both Zenith University College and Telecom University College, in addition to micro-finance payments for the Databank’s ePack and mFund, all in Ghana. Another service being facilitated by eTranzact is Ghana Telecom’s onetouch se...

Jonah Iboma ipNX Nigeria Limited is to invest about $100m (about N12.8bn) to implement a broadband network over the next two years. The company would also invest in recruitment and training of of technical personnel as well as setting up of a customer contact centres to aid its service delivery. According to the Group Managing Director of ipNX, Mr. Ejovi Aror, after three years of research and development, the firm introduced a wireless broadband solution designed to offer residential and small office subscribers access to the Internet. Called iWireless, the new broadband solution would be made commercially available from the first week of April this year. Aror said that ipNX developed the solution in partnership with SOMA Networks, a member of the WiMAX Forum, a body that promotes the use of Wimax for telecoms services. He added that the solution marks the entry of ipNX into the mass data market having spent years servicing multinationals firms mainly. He explained that a lot of resea...

Jonah Iboma An independent firm might oversee the anti-theft scheme soon to be introduced by the Federal Government to check the high incidence of theft of mobile phones in the country. Sources close to the Nigerian Communications Commission said that several firms had submitted bids for the project and that the commission was considering which of them would handle the project. Sources, however, confirmed that the telecommunications regulatory body might settle for an independent firm that would, among other things, keep a database of stolen phones and make them available to operators so that the phones could be demobilised on their networks.One of the bidders is the IDSV International, a firm headed by a United States-based Nigerian telecoms expert, Mr. Prince UchenduOne of the reasons why the regulatory body might consider an independent firm was the need to avoid duplication of efforts by the operators.The Executive Chairman of NCC, Mr. Ernest Ndukwe, had on Thursday given an in...