Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Before
long, many technology companies may begin to fold up due to lack of activity or
business contracts.
Recently,
some local Business Process outsourcing(BPO),firms are lamenting that
bussinesses are being handed over to foreigners, who in turn are muscling them
out of business.
BPO,
according to wikipeadia, is the practice of performing tasks, providing services
or manufacturing products for another company.
BPO
is a subset of outsourcing that involves the contracting of the operations and
responsibilities of a specific business process to a third-party service
provider.
Some
couple of days ago,over 4,000 staffs were disengaged from MTN outsourced call
centre:Communication Network Support Services Limited (CSNNL), because of
contract expiration.
The
call centre was outsourced in 2008 CSNNL, but after a peach recently, it lost
to iSON, an indian firm.
The
list of mass sack is endless in the industry and these people are being
returned to the labour market, which is a major reason for the federal
government to salvage future collapse of some of these companies.
Meanwhile,
at a recent stakeholders'forum organised by the Nigerian Communications
Commission (NCC), Information and Communications Technology (ICT) stakeholders,
disclosed that there is need to review existing local content policy in
ICT,which was drafted in 2013, with a view to fine-tuning it, for better
presentation at the National Assembly, for speedy passage into law.
According
to a member of the House of Representatives, Honorable Oghene Emma Egoh, who
raised concerns over the implications of not having a Local Content Development
Law in ICT, called on stakeholders to expedite action in the formulation and
presentation of local content bill in ICT before the National Assembly and
assured stakeholders of speedy hearing of such bill, either as an executive
bill or a private bill.
Stakeholders
are troubled because Nigerians are losing jobs and contracts in the ICT sector
to foreigners that are doing businesses in Nigeria, which they said have
resulted in capital flight and heavy depletion of the Nigerian economy.
They
heaped the blame on the lack of Local Content Development Act for ICT, which
could have protected the interests of Nigerians and Nigerian-owned businesses,
if it had existed.
Speaking
on phone to Daily Sun, a stakeholder,Chairman Association of Licensed
Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (Alton),Mr Gbenga Adebayo, government
must protect local content, there must be a law that should protect smaller
companies , if not disengagements will continue to happen.
"Bigger
companies have the financial strength to kill smaller ones and this could be
the end of some of these companies".
On
the implications of not having an existing local content law in ICT, National
Coordinator, Office for Nigerian Content Development in ICT, Mr. Inye
Kemabonta, said, it will spell doom for the sector if not urgently addressed.
He called on all stakeholders to rise to the challenge and ensure that the
issue of local content in ICT is addressed to a logical conclusion, in order to
encourage fair competition and to protect the interests of Nigerians and their
businesses.
The
stakeholders were worried that licensed telecoms operators in the county are
majorly foreigners who do business in Nigeria by bringing in foreign staff to
handle the jobs that Nigerians could successfully handle, if given the
opportunity.
The
stakeholders also blamed the Nigerian government for licensing more of foreign
operators in the ICT sector, at the detriment of local investors that have
small businesses in the country.
The
former President of the Association of Telecoms Companies of Nigeria (ATCON),
Lanre Ajayi, also expressed worries over the manner at which Nigerians are
losing ICT jobs and contracts to foreign companies.
Mobile phone safety for kids
As
a parent, you must take preventive measures to minimise your child's exposure
to the harmful effects of mobile phones. These include:
•
Do not give cell phone if your child is under 16 years. A child's brain is too
sensitive to withstand the effects of mobile radiation.
•
Do not let your child hold a mobile phone directly up to his head. Use an
air-tube headset instead.
•
Do not let your child make calls in buses, trains, cars, and elevators. The
mobile phone works harder to get the signal out through the metal, which increases
the power level.
•
Do not let your child use cell phone when the signal is weak. It will increase
the power to the maximum, as the phone attempts to connect to a new relay
antenna.
•
Limit the use of cell phone around children.
•
Make sure that there is no mobile phone mast or network tower near your home or
your kid's school.
•
Do not let children take mobile phones to school.
•
Do not leave mobile phones in your children's bedroom at night.
•
Courtesy: momjunction.com
What to look for when buying a mobile phone
Just
like the computer, there must be some particular function that a user needs in
a mobile phone before purchasing , and it needs to do with their features. Here
are the major phone features: screen type, screen size, connectivity, battery
size, operating system and software version. Screen type/ size Just as your
television at home, so is the phone screen type. It has Liquid Crystal Display
(LCD), Light Emitting Diode (LED) and Thin Film Transistor (TFT).
A
LED TV is just a new generation of LCD TV. The difference is that an LED TV is
not using fluorescent tubes, but rather a series of light emitting diodes
(LEDs), while TFT elements are directly deposited into a substrate that is
usually made of glass instead of the traditional semiconductor creation
process. TFT produces better images and are less prone to crosstalk compared to
traditional LCD.
We
have different sizes of screen phones, this has nothing to do with their makes
of capacities but rather as Original Equipments Manufacturers (OEMs) wanted it,
for instance, 2.4 inch, 3.5 inch, 4.1 inch, 4.5 inch, 5.1 inch, 5.5 inch, 6.1
inch and 6.5 inch. The implication is simply that the bigger the screen, the
bigger the phone.
Connectivity
Infrared,
Wireless (Wi-Fi), Bluetooth, Mobile Hotspot Tethering, and so on. Most of the
early mobile phones come with Infrared (slow in sharing) and most of them are
fading away from the market, the recent ones are replaced with Bluetooth (fast
in sharing), wireless is used for internet connectivity for browsing while
hotspot is used for internet sharing connectivity.
Battery size
Battery
size determine the type of phone: feature or smart phoneThe multiple the valves
in the engine the faster is moves and the higher the fuel consumption, just as
it is in the vehicles, same way with phone, the multiple the features the
higher the battery consumption. For instance you cannot compare the battery
consumption of a phone you are using to browse with the phone only meant for
calls. That is why the phones are made that the higher the features of a phone
the higher its battery capacity.
Operating system
Just
as your computers with different operating system, so are the mobile phones
too. We have four major mobile phone operating system (OS), Microsoft Windows,
Android, Blackberry, and Symbian, but they have similar features. Examples of
Microsoft Windows phones are HTC, Samsung, Nokia, LG and so on. Some of Android
phones are Nexus, Nokia, Infinix, HTC, Samsung, Apple iphone, LG e.t.c. Few of
Blackberry phones are Blackberry Bold, Blackberry Curve, Blackberry Torch,
Blackberry Passport, Blackberry Porsche and many others. Examples of Symbian
phones are majorly on Nokia phones like Nokia C-series, Nokia E-series, Nokia
N-series, Nokia X-series amidst of others. However, the OEMs have stopped the
production of Symbian OS phones production since 2011.
Meanwhile,
all these phones operating systems have their different versions, and the
higher their versions the higher their performances