By Richard Udofia

Former Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC and Chairman, Open Media group, Dr Ernest Ndukwe, at the weekend, warned that much talk about broadband without educating the people that will benefit from its ubiquity  may not give the expected end.

Ndukwe spoke as a guest lecturer at the just concluded 5th edition of the West African Information and Communication Technology Congress (WAFICT).

He reminded that the availability of broadband network in an area does not imply that connectivity is certain, as users of this internet are expected to sign-in where available and surf the internet for opportunities that abound therein.

He added that “broadband is of significance to the ordinary man on the street when he understands the benefits attached to it”.

For him, it is time to talk more of brainband rather than broadband because unless the people understand what broadband means,else, abundance of it, to them, is useless.