DIGITAL WORLD, TELECOM & ICT

  Global Times China and other countries on Thursday established an international alliance aimed at combating cross-border telecom and cyber fraud in Lianyungang, East China’s Jiangsu Province, with foreign participants hailing the initiative as an important step toward stronger intelligence sharing and coordinated global action against the rapidly spreading transnationalContinue Reading

  Inside a flagship store of Chinese drone maker DJI in the city of Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong Province, British visitor Annabel Grainger was busy taking photos of products to share with her friends back home. “My friends wouldn’t have seen anything like that before,” she said. A thriving techContinue Reading

  China has launched an artificial intelligence-powered anti-fraud application to help the public identify and guard against telecom and online scams, the Ministry of Public Security announced on Sunday. The app, called “national anti-fraud AI,” was independently developed by the Shanghai Public Security Bureau under the guidance of the ministry’sContinue Reading

  China continued to expand its 5G network this year, with 5G mobile phone subscriptions reaching 1.3 billion by the end of July, or 70.5 percent of the country’s total mobile phone subscriptions, official data showed Friday. The country’s three major telecom operators and China Broadnet had a combined 1.85Continue Reading

  By Okoh Aihe Getting a fibre optic ring around the country has enjoyed robust discourse in recent times. The other day, it was the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) calling a gathering to discuss a proposed Dig-Once policy which would ensure that the telcos and infrastructure companies rolling out fibreContinue Reading

  By Okoh Aihe The hefty fine of $940m placed on Meta in New Mexico has retained Social Media in the centre of unwanted discourse and concerned efforts by jurisdictional authorities to deal with a menace that threatens today as well as the future of nations since the young onesContinue Reading

By our Correspondent Nigeria has taken a significant step towards strengthening its digital economy with the signing of the National Sovereign Cloud Regulatory Instrument, a landmark framework designed to enhance data security, digital trust, and cloud governance across the country. This was disclosed by the Galaxy Backbone Managing Director/CEO, Prof.Continue Reading

  The size of China’s artificial intelligence (AI) industry was estimated to exceed 1.2 trillion yuan (about 176.7 billion U.S. dollars) in 2025, up 40 percent year on year, according to a research institute under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The China Academy of Information and Communications TechnologyContinue Reading

  By Sale Lawal The Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr. Aminu Maida, on Tuesday, witnessed the signing of a landmark agreement with the Enugu State Government for the operational lease of the NCC Digital Industrial Park and NCC Learning Centre inContinue Reading