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Jonah Iboma MTN Nigeria has recorded the recovery of $60m from revenue leakage, using ACL audit software. According to a report published by ACL, the world’s leading provider of revenue assurance systems and solutions, the recovery was made within one year of the deployment of the software.According to the document, a copy of which was made valuable to our correspondent on Monday, MTN Nigeria used ACL in its revenue assurance, audit, reconciliation and investigation activities.Revenue leakage is a problem prevalent in various industries especially where automated systems are used. Revenue leakage has blighted the telecommunications industry worldwide, stumbling some into collapse or suboptimal performance. Experts have reported that every telecommunications operators loses an average of 15 per cent of its annual revenue to various forms of revenue leakages. Examples include wrongly setting up a prepaid subscriber as post paid and billing system malfunction that sometimes give subscrib...

By Jonah Iboma MTN Nigeria and Globacom have announced the availability of commercial Third Generation mobile telephony services to subscribers. MTN said in a statement on Sunday that it would offer subscribers 3.5G services while Globacom announced in a statement on Monday that it would offer what it called 3G plus services. The Chief Executive Officer of MTN, Mr. Ahmad Farroukh, said the company’s 3G telephony would run on a High Speed Packet Access platform. Speaking at a media conference on Monday, Farroukh said HSPA was technically a mid-way between third-generation and fourth-generation mobile telephony. He said it was referred to technically as 3.5G and represented an advanced form of third-generation mobile telephony. Among the services that the technology will make available are video calling, television and video streaming, downloads on the go, and very high-speed Internet. He said that 3.5G services are much faster than ordinary 3G services as they offer download speeds of u...