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African Tech Summit 2024

Africa Tech Festival is a vibrant, full-ecosystem event dedicated to uniting innovators and global leaders working to leverage the transformative power of technology.

Policy Framework & Support Mechanism

A policy framework is a document that sets out a set of procedures or goals, which might be used in negotiation or decision-making to guide a more detailed set of policies, or to guide ongoing maintenance…

Digital Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Digital Innovation & Entrepreneurship as a panacea for Challenges to Sustainable Economic Development in Nigeria for the consideration of National Council on Communications and Digital Economy (NCCDE)

ATCON’s Memorandum To The Senate Committee on ICT and Cyber Security

The Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), formally inaugurated on December 10, 1993, is a professional, non-profit, non-political umbrella organization of telecommunications companies in Nigeria.

HM’s Address at ATCON Virtual Stakeholders Engagement on NNBP

Broadband technology is a contributor to economic growth at several levels. It supports the development of the digital economy, consequently improving the nation’s traditional economy. Broadband enhances financial inclusion, security, education and is a key enabler for all the other sectors of the economy.

Data Privacy and Protection in the Telecommunication Sector

The Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) is happy that the current Minister of Communications and Digital Economy in the person of Prof Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami has established the Nigeria Data Protection Bureau which presently has Dr Vincent Olatunji as its National Commissioner/Chief Executive Officer. For us at ATCON, we consider this dialogue apt and timely and we are proud to identify with the Nigeria Data Protection Bureau. To start with data privacy is the protection of personal data from those who should not have access to it and it is also the ability of individuals to determine who can access their personal information.

ATCON Announces Its Flagship Event – National Strategic Mobilization

The Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) is pleased to announce one of its flagship events – National Strategic Mobilization for the Actualization of National Broadband Target of 70% Conference & Exhibition with a theme – Realizing the new set target of 70% of Broadband Penetration slated for Thursday, June 9, 2022 in Abuja.

Welcome Address By Engr. Ikechukwu Nnamani, President Atcon At The National Strategic Mobilization For The Actualization Of National Broadband

We are very delighted that Prof Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy accepted our invitation to this meeting, this acceptance has shown that our honourable Minister is someone that is working tirelessly to change the narrative of the Nigerian telecoms and ICT sector in general. And this we can see in terms of broadband penetration and various policies that have been initiated, ratified and issued to further encourage the growth of the industry.

Communique On Telecom Executives and Regulators Forum 2023

The 2023 Telecom Executives and Regulators Forum (TERF 2023) was organized by the Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) on Thursday September 7, 2023 at the Lagos Oriental Hotel, located at No 3 Lekki-Epe Express Way, Victoria Island, Lagos from 9am to 3pm.

Atcon Points On Issues To Be Addressed By NCC At The Nigeria Leadership Summit 2022

ATCON opines that Small indigenous Operators experience anticompetitive behaviors from the major Operators in the Voice segment such as more than one-year delays in interconnection and constriction of circuits in contravention of the Communications Act 2003 and Interconnect Regulations 2007 which states that upon request Operators should be connected within twenty-one (21) days. In addition to this all over the world homes and businesses have fixed and mobile lines.