Telecoms Generated $810bn For Governments In 2025, GSMA

  Telecommunications has cemented its place as one of the largest single contributors to public finance worldwide, with the global mobile industry generating more than $810 billion in tax revenues for governments in 2025, underlining its widening role in digital transformation, economic growth, and public sector financing. The figure, contained in the GSMA’s The Mobile…

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Smartphone Boom Drives N1.5tn MTN, Airtel Data Windfall

Smartphone Boom Drives N1.5tn MTN, Airtel Data Windfall

MTN Nigeria and Airtel Africa have amassed a combined data revenue of N1.53 trillion in their latest financial results, propelled by a sharp rise in smartphone adoption and internet consumption. The figures underscore the shifting commercial realities of the country’s telecommunications sector, where digital services are rapidly displacing traditional voice calls as the primary engine…

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NCC Overhauls 8-Year-Old Telecom Pricing Framework

Telecom Firms Spend N2.5tn on Network Upgrades

Nigerian telecommunications companies have committed 2.5 trillion naira to infrastructure upgrades to fix a worsening service crisis. This massive capital injection follows years of consumer complaints about dropped calls and vanishing data. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is driving this push to modernise a network that feels increasingly brittle under rising demand. Most of this…

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