The firm has a robust telecommunications practice that has maintained a strategic market position since the liberalisation of the sector in the early 1990s. In 2002, we advised one of the bidders for the GSM licences that were auctioned in that year and we continue to provide advice on licensing and other operational requirements to various private telecommunications operators that provide a range of services including local and international VSAT, internet and fixed wireless services. The firm's public sector work includes advising the National Council on Privatisation on the appointment of a management contractor for Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (the public telecommunications operator), drafting the recently passed Telecommunications Act 2003 with a consortium of international consultants including Booz Allen Hamilton and Clifford Chance LLP,
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JUMOKE LAMBO
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