NCC Outlines Eight-Point Agenda to Facilitate Broadband Penetration

The Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) has revealed an eight-point agenda that covers 2015-2020, that would bring about social benefits and inclusiveness for national development. It would enhance broadband penetration, improve quality of service, optimize usage and benefits of spectrum, promote Information Communication Technology(ICT) innovation and investment opportunities in the country.

Kano,Executive Vice Chairman of the commission, Prof. Umar Dambatta, stated that wealth creation through application of human knowledge and creativity is steadily out spacing wealth creation through extraction and processing of natural resources adding that ICT has immense socio-economic role to play in national development.

 “We would promote innovation, investment, competition and consumer empowerment in and on top of communications platforms of today and the future-maximizing the power of information and communications technology to grow our economy, create jobs and enhance national competitiveness through the deployment of broadband infrastructure to facilitate roll out broadband services that will hold out opportunities and higher network quality of service for all Nigerians.”

Dambatta further stated that the broadband penetration agenda would be achieved through the national broadband plan while the role of the NCC in the plan is to prioritize the broadband infrastructure within the cities and subsequently in the rural areas.

He said ”Part of the eight- point agenda is to ensure at least that internet services are affordable, available and accessible.”