The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof Umar Garba Danbatta, has said the commission is ready to drive the process of attaining 70 per cent broadband penetration in the next couple of years, if that is set as the new target by the federal government.

Speaking at the weekend, while delivering a goodwill message at an investment summit of Kaduna State Government, tagged ‘KADINVEST 4.0’, Danbatta expressed optimism about the commitment of the agency towards taking the broadband penetration to the next level.


“When I was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015, broadband penetration was only 8.5 per cent. It has now risen to 33 per cent, an equivalent of 63 million Nigerians enjoying the services. I am particularly thrilled to see that the rising trend has not only been sustained, but the NCC is now ready to take it to the next level,” Danbatta said.

Nigeria had in November 2018, attained its 30 per cent broadband target of December 2018 through measures and strategies put in place by the NCC under the leadership of Danbatta, a development that has attracted industry-wide commendations.

Speaking further at the occasion, Danbatta, however, urged Fleek Network Limited, the licensed Infraco for the North West to quickly mobilise to site with a view to deploying broadband infrastructure to the region.

At least, six infrastructure companies (Infracos) have been licensed by the NCC under the leadership of Danbatta, to drive the deployment of broadband infrastructure across the nation’s geopolitical zones and Lagos State, which is a zone on its own due to the sheer size of its market.

The license for the North central region remaining is currently being processed, according to NCC.

https://www.akelicious.net/2019/04/ncc-assures-nigerians-of-70-broadband.html

Story for the oracles

The only "Penetration" right now is the way MTN, GLO, AIRTEL and 9mobile are raping Nigerians out of the money

Let NCC start by ensuring good call qualities

Stop Airtel from zapping my data

Tell Glo to fix their slow snail crawling network

Tell MTN to stop subscribing me to some useless weekly quotes

Then we can now talk about broadband penetration

Story for the Shrine........ Vision 2000.... Nigeria would be fully electrified..........

Which form of penetration?

Amuocha:
Which form of penetration?

Maybe the olosho kind of penetration........

I think this one good sector of the economy... They just have to be more serious about what they do... But that word "penetration" though...

Haha penetration giggity

talk is cheap.... talk the talk, do the do

I no understand

oga u dey lie: it was more than 8.5%,

“When I was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015, broadband penetration was only 8.5 per cent. It has now risen to 33 per cent, an equivalent of 63 million Nigerians

Imagine taking pride in the growth of something that they're obstacles to its expansion

jauntty:
Story for the oracles

The only "Penetration" right now is the way MTN, GLO, AIRTEL and 9mobile are raping Nigerians out of the money

Let NCC start by ensuring good call qualities

Stop Airtel from zapping my data

Tell Glo to fix their slow snail crawling network

Tell MTN to stop subscribing me to some useless weekly quotes

Then we can now talk about broadband penetration

Glo should not even be counted among internet providers.

OK sir

What I want from NCC is to put a benchmark on the internet speed of service providers. At least we should be able to get 2MBPS. Just ordinary series of 120 MB, Glo will be telling me 4345224 days left to download.

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Pls help me beg Airtel to give me data that will be useful to me, I like how fast their 3g browses but they zap my data.

As for glow, they give u data and collect their network. If they can fix network issues , if their signal � is always active, glo will be the best sim for internet connection.

Oziahete:
What I want from NCC is to put a benchmark on the internet speed of service providers. At least we should be able to get 2MBPS. Just ordinary series of 120 MB, Glo will be telling me 4345224 days left to download.

lol, not as bad as that here

Promise and fail government

what method are they deploying for Nigerians to get cheap data and make the internet browsing faster...They should compel glo to work on it's internet connection.

I don't like 70% penetration.. E neva enta finish b dat

Okay

Glo is definitely not in that number...shitty network

what is this guy saying ?