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Nigeria’s inability to take broadband services to the, hinterlands and virtually its teeming underserved population, despite massive investments in submarine broadband cable by private companies, may not only be seen as an irony but also a national embarrassment.
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Stakeholders in the nation’s ICT sector gathered in Abuja recently to appraise the performance of the 30 per cent broadband target set for the country between 2013 and 2018 by the National Broadband Plan.
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There are strong indications that Nigeria is planning to challenge itself with a pragmatic plan of attaining 70 per cent broadband penetration by 2024.
Read More A software developer, Mr Bola Agboola, has urged government at all levels to promote the kind of digital services
that will give room for more usage of broadband.
With all the enviable statistics Nigeria can boast of in telecommunications development, cost of doing business, particularly in the rural areas, is still very high.
Read More Nigeria Communications Commission, NCC, yesterday, stood its ground that the nation attained up to 31 per cent broadband penetration between 2013 and December 2018 even though its data was based on growth of mobile broadband subscriptions.
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In order to realign Nigeria’s strategic IT direction and further provide affordable broadband for the next 100 million Nigerians and as well reposition the country for global competitiveness, regulators, operators and stakeholders at the 13the Network Technology Conference and Workshop titled: Affordable Broadband For The Next 100 Million Nigerians, had identified the need to connect the next 100 million Nigerians for successful business operations and economic growth in Nigeria.
Read More Perhaps, taking broadband services to rural Nigeria is about the most contentious issue in the Nigerian telecommunications industry since a few private operators took the bold initiative to land massive submarine broadband cables into the country.
Read More United States Trade and Development Agency, USTDA, may have bought into Nigeria’s 30 percent broadband target by 2018 , as it recently released a grant to Backbone Connectivity Network Limited of Nigeria, BCN.BCN is a unified data communication service provider for the North West region of Nigeria. The partnership which necessitated the grant will see to the building of a Tier III data center in Kaduna State and a metropolitan broadband network in Abuja.The grant, according to USTDA is for the development of a feasibility study and business plan to support the deployment of a broadband fiber network across the North West region of Nigeria including the building of a Tier III data center in Kaduna State.
Read More United States Trade and Development Agency, USTDA, may have bought into Nigeria’s 30 percent broadband target by 2018 , as it recently released a grant to Backbone Connectivity Network Limited of Nigeria, BCN.
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