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| Prof Umar Garba Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman, Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) |
Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) has dropped a hint that there will be a need for firms to bid for licences to deploy fiber infrastructure in five zones; North East, North West, South East, South-South and South West.
Prof Umar Garba Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman, Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) who confirmed this today said the share of telecommunications in Nigeria’s total GDP has grown in the last five quarters as the country’s Active Mobile Broadband Penetration reached 20.95% relative from less than 10 % a year ago.
He said the telecommunications sector contributed N1, 580 billion to GDP in Second Quarter of 2016 at 9.8% which is the largest in the rebased period, an increase of 1% compared to the first quarter.
Speaking in Abuja at a public lecture titled “The National Broadband Plan as a Catalyst for Social and Economic Transformation-The NCC Mandate”, organised by the Nigerian Academy of Engineering, he said “The Federal Government had joined the league of ITU member states in recognizing broadband potential for contributions and improvements of socio-economic development of the nation and therefore articulated a policy document, - The Nigerian National Broadband Plan (NBP).
He said the NBP was planned to be implemented over a period of five years (2013 – 2018), targeting a five-fold increase in broadband penetration (i.e. 6 % at 2013 to 30 % at 2018) with the target areas being Policy and Regulation; Enabling Infrastructure; Costing and Pricing; Funding and Investment; Driving Demand; Building Fibre Infrastructure and Wireless Broadband infrastructure and Upgrade.
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